Re: [PATCH] kernel/ksysfs: use snprintf for sysfs show

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:44:10AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Use snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, ...) instead of sprintf for sysfs show
> methods.  This is suggested in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt

... therefore it must be done, the common sense be damned.

> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
> ---

>  static ssize_t uevent_seqnum_show(struct kobject *kobj,
>  				  struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>  {
> -	return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)uevent_seqnum);
> +	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%llu\n", 
> +			(unsigned long long)uevent_seqnum); 

A-yup - that's an improvement, all right, on them evil boxen that got
long long so huge that its decimal representation won't fit into a page.

NAK.  Cargo-cult programming is bad.