Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Mark Brown <> | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:37:50 -0700 | Subject | [PATCH 2/3] regmap: debugfs: Don't bother actually printing when calculating max length |
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The in kernel snprintf() will conveniently return the actual length of the printed string even if not given an output beffer at all so just do that rather than relying on the user to pass in a suitable buffer, ensuring that we don't need to worry if the buffer was truncated due to the size of the buffer passed in.
Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c index 1f32789..4c55cfb 100644 --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c @@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(regmap_debugfs_early_lock); /* Calculate the length of a fixed format */ static size_t regmap_calc_reg_len(int max_val, char *buf, size_t buf_size) { - snprintf(buf, buf_size, "%x", max_val); - return strlen(buf); + return snprintf(NULL, 0, "%x", max_val); } static ssize_t regmap_name_read_file(struct file *file, -- 2.5.0
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