[LTP] [PATCH] inotify: clean up build and make check findings

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Fri Mar 6 12:28:57 CET 2026


Hi!
> For the -Wformat-truncation warning in inotify02.c, how about fixing it
> by adjusting the snprintf() call?
> 
> For example:
>   snprintf(fname3, BUF_SIZE, "%s.rename2", fname1);
>   snprintf(fname3, BUF_SIZE, "%.*s.rename2", (int)(BUF_SIZE -
>                                             sizeof(".rename2")), fname1);
> 
> Also, regarding the make check warning about ENOSYS: if I revert the code,
> the warning will remain. Should this just be left as-is, or is there
> another way to handle it?
> 
>   inotify.h:36: WARNING: ENOSYS means 'invalid syscall nr' and nothing else

The easiest solution is to make fname2 and fname3 array larger:

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/inotify/inotify02.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/inotify/inotify02.c
index 314c1bd49..21a29676a 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/inotify/inotify02.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/inotify/inotify02.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 #define EVENT_BUF_LEN        (EVENT_MAX * (EVENT_SIZE + 16))

 #define BUF_SIZE 256
-static char fname1[BUF_SIZE], fname2[BUF_SIZE], fname3[BUF_SIZE];
+static char fname1[BUF_SIZE], fname2[BUF_SIZE+32], fname3[BUF_SIZE + 32];
 static int fd, fd_notify, reap_wd;
 static int wd;

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ void verify_inotify(void)
        test_cnt++;

        SAFE_GETCWD(fname1, BUF_SIZE);
-       snprintf(fname2, BUF_SIZE, "%s.rename1", fname1);
+       snprintf(fname2, sizeof(fname2), "%s.rename1", fname1);
        SAFE_RENAME(fname1, fname2);
        event_set[test_cnt].mask = IN_MOVE_SELF;
        strcpy(event_set[test_cnt].name, "");
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ void verify_inotify(void)
         * we can correct determine kernel bug which exist before
         * 2.6.25. See comment below.
         */
-       snprintf(fname3, BUF_SIZE, "%s.rename2", fname1);
+       snprintf(fname3, sizeof(fname3), "%s.rename2", fname1);
        SAFE_RENAME(fname2, fname3);

        SAFE_RENAME(fname3, fname1);


-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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