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SubjectRe: [PATCH 20/22] sound: pci: avoid string overflow warnings
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:07:12 +0200,
>
> Thanks for the patch. I have seen it but ignored, so far, as not sure
> which action is the best. An alternative solution is to use
> snprintf() blindly, for example.
>
> For mixart, it's even better to drop mgr->shortname[] and longname[]
> assignment. The shortname is the fixed string, and the longname is
> used only at copying to card->longname, so we can create a string
> there from the scratch.

I've done that now, and tried to be a little smarter with the other
conversions. I also found related problems in ISA drivers after
randconfig testing and fixed those as well.

Sent a 7-patch series now as a replacement.

Arnd

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