Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Buffer overruns in printf

Hi Simon,

Le 23/09/2011 19:38, Simon Glass a écrit :

The printf family of functions in U-Boot cannot deal with a situation where the caller provides a buffer which turns out to be too small for the format string. This can result in buffer overflows, stack overflows and other bad behavior.

Indeed overruns can lead to bad behaviors, but in any case, it can never be recovered, because at the root, the problem is that the caller provided inconsistent arguments to printf.

So in essence, you're 'fixing' printf for a design error in printf's caller, instead of fixing the design error.

Amicalement,