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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] pwm: sysfs: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:28:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YzQ9+Wzhfnila1s3@orome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220826170716.6886-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 08:07:15PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> For sysfs outputs, it's safer to use a new helper, sysfs_emit(),
> instead of the raw sprintf() & co. This patch replaces such a
> sprintf() call straightforwardly with the new helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> v2: added tag (Uwe)
>  drivers/pwm/sysfs.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

How exactly is sysfs_emit() safer here? In all of these cases, the
values that sprintf() writes are the only values that are written into
the buffer and we know that none of them exceed PAGE_SIZE. So the
additional checks that sysfs_emit() performs are useless.

Thierry

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-28 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-26 17:07 [PATCH v2 1/4] pwm: sysfs: Switch to DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() and pm_sleep_ptr() Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-26 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] pwm: sysfs: Return directly from the for-loop in PM callbacks Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-28 12:31   ` Thierry Reding
2022-09-28 13:43     ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-26 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] pwm: sysfs: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit() Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-28 12:28   ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2022-09-28 13:40     ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-28 13:58       ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-28 15:20         ` Thierry Reding
2022-09-28 15:21           ` Thierry Reding
2022-09-28 15:39           ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-26 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] pwm: sysfs: Utilize an array for polarity strings Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-28  2:07   ` Joe Perches
     [not found]     ` <CAHp75VfY5RgAju5ASvAp565oF6VmYYiuowNsPTGSm=+1iFJ98A@mail.gmail.com>
2022-08-28 13:46       ` Joe Perches
2022-08-28 17:40         ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-28 18:19           ` Joe Perches
2022-08-29  7:59             ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-28 12:15             ` Thierry Reding
2022-09-06 13:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] pwm: sysfs: Switch to DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() and pm_sleep_ptr() Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-28 12:31 ` Thierry Reding
2022-09-28 14:01   ` Andy Shevchenko

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