Re: [PATCH v5 20/21] hwmon: (mr75203) add debugfs to read and write temperature coefficients

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 05:03:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 12:32:47PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 07:26:36AM +0300, Farber, Eliav wrote:
> > > On 9/13/2022 8:01 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 05:40:16PM +0300, Farber, Eliav wrote:
> > > > > On 9/13/2022 4:06 PM, Farber, Eliav wrote:

...

> > > > > It seems like debugfs_attr_write() calls simple_attr_write() and it uses
> > > > > kstrtoull(), which is why it fails when setting a negative value.
> > > > > This is the same also in v6.0-rc5.
> > > > > 
> > > > > debugfs_attr_read() on the other hand does show the correct value also
> > > > > when j is negative.
> > > > 
> > > > Which puzzles me since there is a few drivers that use %lld.
> > > > Yeah, changing it to
> > > > 
> > > >        ret = sscanf(attr->set_buf, attr->fmt, &val);
> > > >        if (ret != 1)
> > > >                ret = -EINVAL;
> > > > 
> > > > probably can fix that. Dunno if debugfs maintainer is okay with this.
> > > > 
> > > > P.S. This needs revisiting all format strings to see if there are no
> > > > additional
> > > > characters, otherwise that needs to be addressed first, if feasible.
> > > 
> > > I was thinking of making such a correction:
> > > 
> > > -       ret = kstrtoull(attr->set_buf, 0, &val);
> > > +       if (attr->set_buf[0] == '-')
> > > +               ret = kstrtoll(attr->set_buf, 0, &val);
> > > +       else
> > > +               ret = kstrtoull(attr->set_buf, 0, &val);
> > > 
> > > and when I tested the change it worked, but then I noticed this commit:
> > > 
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/libfs.c?h=v6.0-rc5&id=488dac0c9237647e9b8f788b6a342595bfa40bda
> > > 
> > > According to this, it previously used simple_strtoll() which supports
> > > negative values, but was changed to use kstrtoull() to deliberately
> > > return '-EINVAL' if it gets a negative value.
> > > 
> > > So I’m not sure debugfs maintainers will be okay with a fix that
> > > basically reverts the commit I mentioned.
> > > Hence, what do you suggest to do with my commit?
> > > Is it ok to leave it as it is today?
> > 
> > Meanwhile asking is not a problem, at least we will know for sure.
> > And yes, leave it as is, but point to the thread where you asking
> > the clarification.
> 
> For the record:
> 
> $ git grep -n -A1 -w DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE | grep ');' | sed 's,.*\(".*%.*"\).*,\1,' | sort | uniq -c
>   1 "%08llx\n"
>   5 "0x%016llx\n"
>   5 "0x%02llx\n"
>   5 "0x%04llx\n"
>  13 "0x%08llx\n"
>   1 "0x%4.4llx\n"
>   3 "0x%.4llx\n"
>   4 "0x%llx\n"
>   1 "%1lld\n"
>  40 "%lld\n"
>   2 "%lli\n"
> 129 "%llu\n"
>   1 "%#llx\n"
>   2 "%llx\n"
> 
> means that sscanf() should work and fix the issue. You may even propose a patch
> as a starter for a discussion.

Reading the commit 488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in
simple_attr_write()") I think it should be either reverted or fixed, because
u64 is not an issue for negative numbers. The %lld and %llu in any case are
for 64-bit value, representing it as unsigned simplifies the generic code,
but it doesn't mean we can't keep there signed value if we know that (by
supplying proper format string). We have 43 current users of signed integer
and I'm in doubt this patch doesn't break none of them.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko