Re: [PATCH] staging: fieldbus: Replace snprintf in show functions with sysfs_emit

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Nov 10 2021 - 03:10:07 EST


On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 02:30:48AM +0000, cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Jing Yao <yao.jing2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> coccicheck complains about the use of snprintf() in sysfs show
> functions:
> WARNING use scnprintf or sprintf
>
> Use sysfs_emit instead of scnprintf, snprintf or sprintf makes more
> sense.
>
> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>

But coccicheck is the thing that is reporting this, right?

And your subject line has two space characters between "with" and
"sysfs_emit" for some odd reason :(


> Signed-off-by: Jing Yao <yao.jing2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c
> index 5aab734606ea..01862fe8e4cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static ssize_t card_name_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
> * card_name was provided by child driver, could potentially be long.
> * protect against buffer overrun.
> */
> - return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", fb->card_name);
> + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", fb->card_name);
> }
> static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(card_name);


Your "bot" is not very good, why are you only changing one function in
this file and not all of the places where sysfs_emit() could be used?

Doing this one function at a time is really hard, please do not do it
that way.

thanks,

greg k-h