From d3f70befd9a6ab79413f303109e2c701472e2785 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:09:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs/sysfs: show() methods should use scnprintf().
Since snprintf() may return a value that exceeds its second argument,
show() methods should use scnprintf() instead of snprintf(). This patch
updates the example in the sysfs documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 2ed95f9b770ab..f806e50aaa639 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ Other notes:
is 4096.
- show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the
- buffer. This is the return value of snprintf().
+ buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf().
-- show() should always use snprintf().
+- show() should always use scnprintf().
- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the
entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument.
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ A very simple (and naive) implementation of a device attribute is:
static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
- return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
+ return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
}
static ssize_t store_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
--
2.30.2