Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: resubmit export uid, model, vendor, rev to sysfs

[Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 22:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: 
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:08:54 +0000 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > +	char model[MODEL_LEN + 1];
> > > > ...
> > > > +		return snprintf(buf, MODEL_LEN + 2, "%s\n", drv->model);
> > > 
> > > Isn't the buffer sizing wrong here?  Should be MODEL_LEN+1.
> > > 
> > 
> > Don't we need space for the '\0' and the '\n'?
> 
> The second arg to snprintf() tells snprintf() how large the buffer is. 
> That buffer should be sized to allow room for the trailing \0.
> 
> So if MODEL_LEN represents the maximum number of characters in a string
> then you want:
> 
> 	char model[MODEL_LEN + 2];	/* Room for the \n and the \0 */
> 	...
> 	return snprintf(buf, sizeof(model), "%s\n", drv->model);

Note that I don't want the '\n" in the source string.  I just want it
output to the dest string (buf).  I could do:

  return snprintf(buf, sizeof(model) + 1, "%s\n", drv->model);

if that is preferable.  Perhaps what is confusing is using:

#define MODEL_LEN	16
char model[MODEL_LEN + 1];   /* SCSI model string */

So MODEL_LEN is not accounting for the '\0'.

I am not sure what the convention is here.  It have seen SCSI code that
uses the above, e.g., include/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.h.  But I am happy
to have *_LEN account for the '\0' if that makes it less confusing.

Andrew