linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: [PATCH] arm: mm: replace snprintf in show functions with sysfs

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:16:20 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     hanyu001@...suo.com
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] arm: mm: replace snprintf in show functions with
 sysfs_emit

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 06:06:15PM +0800, hanyu001@...suo.com wrote:
> coccicheck complains about the use of snprintf() in sysfs show functions.
> 
> Fix the coccicheck warning:
> WARNING: use scnprintf or sprintf.
> 
> ./arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c:346:8-16: WARNING: use scnprintf or sprintf
> 
> Signed-off-by: ztt <1549089851@...com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c
> index 993fefdc167a..d20626451a2e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c
> @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ static ssize_t l2x0_pmu_event_show(struct device *dev,
>      struct l2x0_event_attribute *lattr;
> 
>      lattr = container_of(attr, typeof(*lattr), attr);
> -    return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "config=0x%x\n", lattr->config);
> +    return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "config=0x%x\n", lattr->config);

This only serves to shut up a warning. On 32-bit ARM, there is utterly
no way what so ever that "config=0x%x\n" could ever overflow 4096 bytes,
or even 32 bytes!

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