Bug 13576

Summary: (Patch queued) arch/ia64/sn/kernel/io_common.c:438: bad call to sprintf
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware Reporter: David Binderman (dcb314)
Component: IA-64Assignee: Alan (alan)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: alan
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.30 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description David Binderman 2009-06-18 20:52:29 UTC 
The offending line of code is

                        sprintf(address, "%s^%d", address, geo_slot(geoid));

AFAIK, it is a bad idea to have the source and 
destination address the same. Suggest code rework.