From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>

A false-positive compile warnings with -Wformat-trucation was introduced
by commit 47179fe03588 ("mm/hugetlb_cgroup: prepare cftypes based
on template") on arch s390. Suppress it by replacing snprintf() with
scnprintf().

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512212332.9lFRbgdS-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
index 58e895f3899a..7144d7d555eb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ hugetlb_cgroup_cfttypes_init(struct hstate *h, struct cftype *cft,
 	for (i = 0; i < tmpl_size; cft++, tmpl++, i++) {
 		*cft = *tmpl;
 		/* rebuild the name */
-		snprintf(cft->name, MAX_CFTYPE_NAME, "%s.%s", buf, tmpl->name);
+		scnprintf(cft->name, MAX_CFTYPE_NAME, "%s.%s", buf, tmpl->name);
 		/* rebuild the private */
 		cft->private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(idx, tmpl->private);
 		/* rebuild the file_offset */
-- 
2.43.0

On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:23:59 +0000 Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huaweicloud.com> wrote:

> A false-positive compile warnings with -Wformat-trucation was introduced
> by commit 47179fe03588 ("mm/hugetlb_cgroup: prepare cftypes based
> on template") on arch s390. Suppress it by replacing snprintf() with
> scnprintf().

Thanks.

Let's quote that error message in the changelog and include the Fixes:.



From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Subject: mm/hugetlb_cgroup: fix -Wformat-truncation warning
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:23:59 +0000

A false-positive compile warnings with -Wformat-trucation was introduced
by commit 47179fe03588 ("mm/hugetlb_cgroup: prepare cftypes based on
template") on arch s390.  Suppress it by replacing snprintf() with
scnprintf().

mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c: In function 'hugetlb_cgroup_file_init':
mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c:829:44: warning: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 1623 bytes into a region of size between 32 and 63 [-Wformat-truncation=]
  829 |   snprintf(cft->name, MAX_CFTYPE_NAME, "%s.%s", buf, tmpl->name);
      |                                            ^~

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251222072359.3626182-1-xiujianfeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 47179fe03588 ("mm/hugetlb_cgroup: prepare cftypes based on template")
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512212332.9lFRbgdS-lkp@intel.com/
Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c~mm-hugetlb_cgroup-fix-wformat-truncation-warning
+++ a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ hugetlb_cgroup_cfttypes_init(struct hsta
 	for (i = 0; i < tmpl_size; cft++, tmpl++, i++) {
 		*cft = *tmpl;
 		/* rebuild the name */
-		snprintf(cft->name, MAX_CFTYPE_NAME, "%s.%s", buf, tmpl->name);
+		scnprintf(cft->name, MAX_CFTYPE_NAME, "%s.%s", buf, tmpl->name);
 		/* rebuild the private */
 		cft->private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(idx, tmpl->private);
 		/* rebuild the file_offset */
_

On 12/23/2025 3:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:23:59 +0000 Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huaweicloud.com> wrote:
> 
>> A false-positive compile warnings with -Wformat-trucation was introduced
>> by commit 47179fe03588 ("mm/hugetlb_cgroup: prepare cftypes based
>> on template") on arch s390. Suppress it by replacing snprintf() with
>> scnprintf().
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Let's quote that error message in the changelog and include the Fixes:.
Thanks, Andrew.