banned.h: mark sprintf() as banned

The sprintf() function (and its variadic form vsprintf) make it easy to accidentally introduce a buffer overflow. If you're thinking of using them, you're better off either using a dynamic string (strbuf or xstrfmt), or xsnprintf if you really know that you won't overflow. The last sprintf() call went away quite a while ago in f0766bf94e (fsck: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir, 2015-09-24). Note that we respect HAVE_VARIADIC_MACROS here, which some ancient platforms lack. As a fallback, we can just "guess" that the caller will provide 3 arguments. If they do, then the macro will work as usual. If not, then they'll get a slightly less useful error, like: git.c:718:24: error: macro "sprintf" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2 That's not ideal, but it at least alerts them to the problem area. And anyway, we're primarily targeting people adding new code. Most developers should be on modern enough platforms to see the normal "good" error message. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jeff King committed Jul 24, 2018 at 05:27 UTC cc8fdaee1eeaf05d8dd55ff11f111b815f673c58
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@@ -15,4 +15,14 @@
15 #undef strcat
16 #define strcat(x,y) BANNED(strcat)
17
18 +#undef sprintf
19 +#undef vsprintf
20 +#ifdef HAVE_VARIADIC_MACROS
21 +#define sprintf(...) BANNED(sprintf)
22 +#define vsprintf(...) BANNED(vsprintf)
23 +#else
24 +#define sprintf(buf,fmt,arg) BANNED(sprintf)
25 +#define vsprintf(buf,fmt,arg) BANNED(sprintf)
26 +#endif
27 +
28 #endif /* BANNED_H */