[PATCH] firewire: core: clean up modalias buffer handling

From: Thorsten Blum

Date: Sun Mar 29 2026 - 17:19:57 EST


Use scnprintf() in get_modalias() to return the number of characters
actually written to the destination buffer.

Also reserve space for the trailing newline in modalias_show() and
append it explicitly, instead of using strcpy() and relying on the
formatted modalias to fit within PAGE_SIZE.

While the current code is safe, this makes the sysfs buffer handling
more explicit and consistent.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c b/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
index c0f17da27a22..182eb4321e47 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@ static int get_modalias(const struct fw_unit *unit, char *buffer, size_t buffer_

get_modalias_ids(unit, id);

- return snprintf(buffer, buffer_size,
- "ieee1394:ven%08Xmo%08Xsp%08Xver%08X",
- id[0], id[1], id[2], id[3]);
+ return scnprintf(buffer, buffer_size,
+ "ieee1394:ven%08Xmo%08Xsp%08Xver%08X",
+ id[0], id[1], id[2], id[3]);
}

static int fw_unit_uevent(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
@@ -435,8 +435,9 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev,
struct fw_unit *unit = fw_unit(dev);
int length;

- length = get_modalias(unit, buf, PAGE_SIZE);
- strcpy(buf + length, "\n");
+ length = get_modalias(unit, buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+ buf[length] = '\n';
+ buf[length + 1] = '\0';

return length + 1;
}