Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2021 08:57:56 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: 8250: replace snprintf in show functions with sysfs_emit |
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:51:22PM -0700, Qing Wang wrote: > show() must not use snprintf() when formatting the value to be > returned to user space.
Why must it not? What is broken in the existing code?
> > Fix the coccicheck warnings: > WARNING: use scnprintf or sprintf. > > Signed-off-by: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com> > --- > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c | 6 +++--- > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c > index 2350fb3..082b9bd 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c > @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static ssize_t lpc_address_show(struct device *dev, > addr = (aspeed_vuart_readb(vuart, ASPEED_VUART_ADDRH) << 8) | > (aspeed_vuart_readb(vuart, ASPEED_VUART_ADDRL)); > > - return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1, "0x%x\n", addr); > + return sysfs_emit(buf - 1, "0x%x\n", addr);
what is the buf-1 thing here for?
Doing a tree-wide change for this type of thing might not be wanted by many maintainers, especially if you introduce bugs like this :(
greg k-h
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