linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/13] xfs: convert xfs_sysfs attrs to use ->seq

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Message-ID: <20210915070445.GA17384@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:04:45 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] xfs: convert xfs_sysfs attrs to use ->seq_show

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 05:41:37PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> They huge majority of sysfs attributes are "trivial".  So for maybe at
> least 95% of the users, if not more, using sysfs_emit() is just fine as
> all you "should" be doing is emitting a single value.

It is just fine if no one does the obvious mistakes that an interface
with a char * pointer leads to.  And 5% of all attributes is still a huge
attack surface.