sprintf() does not perform bounds checking on the destination buffer and
is deprecated in the kernel as documented in
Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.

Replace it with scnprintf() to ensure the write stays within bounds.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Kathara Sasikumar <[email protected]>
---
 net/6lowpan/debugfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/6lowpan/debugfs.c b/net/6lowpan/debugfs.c
index 600b9563bfc5..d45ace484143 100644
--- a/net/6lowpan/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/6lowpan/debugfs.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static void lowpan_dev_debugfs_ctx_init(struct net_device 
*dev,
        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(id >= LOWPAN_IPHC_CTX_TABLE_SIZE))
                return;
 
-       sprintf(buf, "%d", id);
+       scnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", id);
 
        root = debugfs_create_dir(buf, ctx);
 
-- 
2.51.0


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