Some patches to compile with gcc-next

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Nov 28 19:32:12 UTC 2016


On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 08:05:39PM +0100, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
> Just asking: Has there been a follow-up on this issue? Seems to be a
> valid bug, fortunately not a security one.

Nope, I think Douglas got busy with other things.

> Jeremy Allison schrieb:
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 05:03:42PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:52:07AM +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The real bug is in smbclient, which I think I have fixed. There it was
> >>> trying to overwrite a string like "stdin-<pid>" onto the considerably
> >>> shorter string "-", but the snprintf limit was actually set to
> >>> sizeof(char *) - 1.
> >>>
> >>> ../source4/client/client.c: In function ‘cmd_print’:
> >>> ../source4/client/client.c:1545:45: error: output truncated before the last format character [-Werror=format-length=]
> >>>    slprintf(rname, sizeof(rname)-1, "stdin-%d", (int)getpid());
> >>>                                      ~~~~~~~~^
> >>> In file included from ../source4/include/includes.h:23:0,
> >>>                  from ../source4/client/client.c:32:
> >>> ../lib/replace/../replace/replace.h:510:18: note: format output between 8 and 18 bytes into a destination of size 7
> >>>  #define slprintf snprintf
> >>> ../source4/client/client.c:1545:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘slprintf’
> >>>    slprintf(rname, sizeof(rname)-1, "stdin-%d", (int)getpid());
> >>>    ^~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> Yeah, that's in the smbclient4 which isn't used as a production
> >> tool. Good catch though.
> >>
> >> I'll take a look at PATCH 4/4 tomorrow and review !
> > 
> > Douglas - slprintf has been deprecated (as you see above
> > with the #define slprintf snprintf).
> > 
> > Can you rewrite patch 4/4 to use snprintf instead with
> > the correct size_t lengths ? Let me know if you don't
> > have time and I'll take a look at doing it.
> > 
> > Slowly we should be getting rid of slprintf from
> > our code.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 	Jeremy.
> > 
> 



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