From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEB388BE1; Tue, 8 Nov 2022 15:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD78CC433B5; Tue, 8 Nov 2022 15:13:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1667920395; bh=yjUEyhaRIiHMqqO27oI8Zj9p/9BwETLNtnjjbRI3gdc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=TnykQP2KcAzGAG/+CJJg8u7H4NN9PjTW3S24WLXdrw/LYKque3tsoHXiT/uT1NJB1 +07FaD7LPaEt5y2Lp1nW6IVlWLQLOdqIFoURyuKEKAwO5/+oByVWgdECQuB+I4vpro z7ab5TdoPCnhUQetg4jz2Xthrnl1bdez0tJRFONM= Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 16:13:12 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Deepak R Varma Cc: outreachy@lists.linux.dev, Sven Van Asbroeck , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fieldbus: convert snprintf to scnprintf Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 11:55:52PM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote: > It is recommended to use scnprintf instead of snprintf to accurately > return the size of the encoded data. Following article [1] has details > on the reason for this kernel level migration. This issue was identified > using coccicheck. > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/69419/ > > Signed-off-by: Deepak R Varma > --- > drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c > index 5aab734606ea..d51f2b02d5e6 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c > @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static ssize_t card_name_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, > * card_name was provided by child driver, could potentially be long. > * protect against buffer overrun. > */ > - return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", fb->card_name); > + return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", fb->card_name); No, neither of these are correct. Please use sysfs_emit() for sysfs show callbacks. thanks, greg k-h