[PATCH] comedi: comedi_bond: Refactor strlcat() to seq_buf in do_dev_config()

From: Mariia Nikitash

Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 02:00:52 EST


From: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx>

do_dev_config() builds a space-separated list of bonded devices in
devpriv->name by formatting each "minor:subdev " pair into a temporary
stack buffer with snprintf() and appending it with strlcat() in a loop.

In preparation for removing the deprecated strlcat() API[1], use struct
seq_buf and seq_buf_printf() to format each entry directly into
devpriv->name. This avoids repeated rescanning of devpriv->name and
eliminates the temporary buffer.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 [1]
Cc: codemender-patching+linux@xxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mariia Nikitash <nikitash.mariiaw@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c | 18 ++++++++----------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c b/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
index 8e10ecab4f0d..a10cfbd04c72 100644
--- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
+++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_bond.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/seq_buf.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/comedi.h>
#include <linux/comedi/comedilib.h>
@@ -170,10 +171,11 @@ static int do_dev_config(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
{
struct comedi_bond_private *devpriv = dev->private;
DECLARE_BITMAP(devs_opened, COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS);
+ struct seq_buf s;
int i;

memset(&devs_opened, 0, sizeof(devs_opened));
- devpriv->name[0] = 0;
+ seq_buf_init(&s, devpriv->name, sizeof(devpriv->name));
/*
* Loop through all comedi devices specified on the command-line,
* building our device list.
@@ -250,15 +252,9 @@ static int do_dev_config(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
}
devpriv->devs = devs;
devpriv->devs[devpriv->ndevs++] = bdev;
- {
- /* Append dev:subdev to devpriv->name */
- char buf[20];
-
- snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%u:%u ",
- bdev->minor, bdev->subdev);
- strlcat(devpriv->name, buf,
- sizeof(devpriv->name));
- }
+
+ /* Append dev:subdev to devpriv->name */
+ seq_buf_printf(&s, "%u:%u ", bdev->minor, bdev->subdev);
}
}

@@ -267,6 +263,8 @@ static int do_dev_config(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
return -EINVAL;
}

+ seq_buf_str(&s);
+
return 0;
}

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2.43.0