回复: [PATCH] tty: 8250: replace snprintf in show functions with sysfs_emit

王擎 wangqing at vivo.com
Fri Oct 15 18:13:58 AEDT 2021


>> show() must not use snprintf() when formatting the value to be
>> returned to user space.
>
>Why must it not?  What is broken in the existing code?

Replyed in another email.

>
>> 
>> Fix the coccicheck warnings:
>> WARNING: use scnprintf or sprintf.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Qing Wang <wangqing at vivo.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c | 6 +++---
>>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c         | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
>> index 2350fb3..082b9bd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
>> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static ssize_t lpc_address_show(struct device *dev,
>>        addr = (aspeed_vuart_readb(vuart, ASPEED_VUART_ADDRH) << 8) |
>>                (aspeed_vuart_readb(vuart, ASPEED_VUART_ADDRL));
>>  
>> -     return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1, "0x%x\n", addr);
>> +     return sysfs_emit(buf - 1, "0x%x\n", addr);
>
>what is the buf-1 thing here for?
>
>Doing a tree-wide change for this type of thing might not be wanted by
>many maintainers, especially if you introduce bugs like this :(

Sorry for this, my tool needs to be optimized.
Please ignore this patch.

Thanks,

Qing
>
>greg k-h
>


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