Assertions are meant to check assumptions, but the way that this
assertion is written does not check an assumption, since it is provably
always true. Removing the assertion will cause a compiler warning (made
into an error by -Werror) about printing up to 512 bytes to a 256-byte
buffer, so instead, we change the assertion to verify the assumption
that we never do a snprintf() that is truncated to avoid overrunning the
256-byte buffer.
This was caught by an audit of the codebase to look for misuse of
`snprintf()` after CodeQL reported that we had misused `snprintf()`. An
explanation of how snprintf() can be misused is here:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/trouble-snprintf
This particular instance did not misuse `snprintf()`, but it was caught
by the audit anyway.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Closes#14098
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