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

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Message-ID: <20100811152155.GC9180@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:21:55 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kay.sievers@...y.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/ksysfs: use snprintf for sysfs show

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

As Al pointed out, none of these will ever overflow so it makes no sense
to change them.

thanks,

greg k-h
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