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Message-ID: <YzRO0xrzlrHAYdaI@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:40:35 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc: linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] pwm: sysfs: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 02:28:41PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
This is a recommended way to use sysfs_emit() mentioned in Documentation.
Care to fix documentation?
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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