[PATCH] scsi: csiostor: fix inverted sscanf() check in csio_store_dbg_level
From: Rodrigo Gobbi
Date: Wed Aug 19 2026 - 18:03:35 EST
csio_store_dbg_level() has an inverted return check on sscanf():
the existing check treats a truthy return as an error, so every
valid write to the "dbg_level" sysfs attribute was rejected with
-EINVAL. This has been broken since the driver was first added.
checkpatch also flags this same line for a related issue:
WARNING: unchecked sscanf return value
WARNING: Prefer kstrto<type> to single variable sscanf
Replace the sscanf()/isdigit() combo with kstrtou32(buf, 16, ...),
so this class of inversion bug can't happen again. It also validates
the whole string instead of stopping at the first non-digit. This makes
the isdigit() pre-check redundant, so it's removed along with the now
unused <linux/ctype.h> include.
Base 16 is used instead of base 0 (which would only recognize hex
with an explicit "0x" prefix) to match csio_show_dbg_level(),
which always prints the value as bare hex via "%x". This keeps
read and write symmetric: writing back what was just read always
restores the same value.
Fixes: a3667aaed569 ("[SCSI] csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver")
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Gobbi <rodrigo.gobbi.7@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi all,
While looking at this file I noticed checkpatch flags
csio_store_dbg_level() with:
WARNING: unchecked sscanf return value
WARNING: Prefer kstrto<type> to single variable sscanf
Digging into it, the sscanf() check is actually inverted, so
csio_store_dbg_level() has been rejecting every valid write since the
driver was added. This patch fixes that with kstrtou32(), using base
16 (instead of 0) so that copy-pasting the value printed by
csio_show_dbg_level() (which is always printed as bare hex) back into
the store function round-trips correctly.
While tracing this I also noticed that log_level doesn't seem to be
read anywhere else in the driver to gate any behaviour -- I couldn't
find a consumer for it. I'm not proposing to remove the dbg_level
sysfs attribute as part of this fix, just flagging it in case it's
dead code worth a separate cleanup, if the maintainers agree.
I wasn't able to test this patch, only compile it.
Thanks and regards.
---
drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c
index b1de615cf316..d64b47ee1bbe 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
-#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
@@ -1441,12 +1440,11 @@ csio_store_dbg_level(struct device *dev,
struct csio_lnode *ln = shost_priv(class_to_shost(dev));
struct csio_hw *hw = csio_lnode_to_hw(ln);
uint32_t dbg_level = 0;
+ int ret;
- if (!isdigit(buf[0]))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if (sscanf(buf, "%i", &dbg_level))
- return -EINVAL;
+ ret = kstrtou32(buf, 16, &dbg_level);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
ln->params.log_level = dbg_level;
hw->params.log_level = dbg_level;
--
2.48.1