Patch "perf bench numa: Avoid possible truncation when using snprintf()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

perf bench numa: Avoid possible truncation when using snprintf()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
perf-bench-numa-avoid-possible-truncation-when-using-snprintf.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:39:42 -0300
Subject: perf bench numa: Avoid possible truncation when using snprintf()

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

commit 3aff8ba0a4c9c9191bb788171a1c54778e1246a2 upstream.

Addressing this warning from gcc 7:

CC /tmp/build/perf/bench/numa.o
bench/numa.c: In function '__bench_numa':
bench/numa.c:1582:42: error: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size between 8 and 17 [-Werror=format-truncation=]

       snprintf(tname, 32, "process%d:thread%d", p, t);
                                            ^~
  bench/numa.c:1582:25: note: directive argument in the range [0, 2147483647]
       snprintf(tname, 32, "process%d:thread%d", p, t);
                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:939:0,
                   from bench/../util/util.h:47,
                   from bench/../builtin.h:4,
                   from bench/numa.c:11:
  /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:64:10: note: '__builtin___snprintf_chk' output between 17 and 35 bytes into a destination of size 32
     return __builtin___snprintf_chk (__s, __n, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1,
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
          __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ());
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

---
 tools/perf/bench/numa.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -1570,13 +1570,13 @@ static int __bench_numa(const char *name
 		"GB/sec,", "total-speed",	"GB/sec total speed");
 
 	if (g->p.show_details >= 2) {
-		char tname[32];
+		char tname[14 + 2 * 10 + 1];
 		struct thread_data *td;
 		for (p = 0; p < g->p.nr_proc; p++) {
 			for (t = 0; t < g->p.nr_threads; t++) {
-				memset(tname, 0, 32);
+				memset(tname, 0, sizeof(tname));
 				td = g->threads + p*g->p.nr_threads + t;
-				snprintf(tname, 32, "process%d:thread%d", p, t);
+				snprintf(tname, sizeof(tname), "process%d:thread%d", p, t);
 				print_res(tname, td->speed_gbs,
 					"GB/sec",	"thread-speed", "GB/sec/thread speed");
 				print_res(tname, td->system_time_ns / 1e9,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/perf-tools-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r.patch queue-4.4/perf-thread_map-correctly-size-buffer-used-with-dirent-dt_name.patch queue-4.4/perf-tests-remove-wrong-semicolon-in-while-loop-in-cqm-test.patch queue-4.4/perf-annotate-browser-fix-behaviour-of-shift-tab-with-nothing-focussed.patch queue-4.4/perf-tests-avoid-possible-truncation-with-dirent-d_name-snprintf.patch queue-4.4/perf-top-use-__fallthrough.patch queue-4.4/perf-scripting-perl-fix-compile-error-with-some-perl5-versions.patch queue-4.4/perf-bench-numa-avoid-possible-truncation-when-using-snprintf.patch queue-4.4/perf-tools-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r-again.patch queue-4.4/perf-thread_map-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r.patch queue-4.4/perf-tools-remove-duplicate-const-qualifier.patch queue-4.4/tools-string-use-__fallthrough-in-perf_atoll.patch queue-4.4/perf-intel-pt-use-__fallthrough.patch queue-4.4/perf-script-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r.patch queue-4.4/tools-include-add-a-__fallthrough-statement.patch queue-4.4/tools-strfilter-use-__fallthrough.patch queue-4.4/perf-dwarf-guard-x86_64-definitions-under-ifdef-else-clause.patch queue-4.4/perf-pmu-fix-misleadingly-indented-assignment-whitespace.patch queue-4.4/perf-trace-do-not-process-perf_record_lost-twice.patch