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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Alex Dewar' <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	"accessrunner-general@lists.sourceforge.net" 
	<accessrunner-general@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] usb: atm: don't use snprintf() for sysfs attrs
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:12:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e882693bb344424af37d4d35f3db605@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200824222322.22962-1-alex.dewar90@gmail.com>

From: Alex Dewar
> Sent: 24 August 2020 23:23
> kernel/cpu.c: don't use snprintf() for sysfs attrs
> 
> As per the documentation (Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst),
> snprintf() should not be used for formatting values returned by sysfs.
> 
> In all of these cases, sprintf() suffices as we know that the formatted
> strings will be less than PAGE_SIZE in length.

Hmmmm....
I much prefer to see bounded string ops.
sysfs really ought to be passing through the buffer length.
The buffer size should probably be SYSFS_BUF_LEN not PAGE_SIZE
(even it happens to typically be the same).
If PAGE_SIZE is big (or small) passing a 4k buffer may be
more appropriate than a PAGE_SIZE one.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-25  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-24 22:23 [PATCH] usb: atm: don't use snprintf() for sysfs attrs Alex Dewar
2020-08-25  8:12 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-08-25  8:17   ` Alex Dewar
2020-08-25  9:07     ` David Laight
2020-08-25  8:24   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-27 16:49     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-27 17:45       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-27  6:42 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-08-27  7:15   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-27 13:18     ` Alex Dewar
2020-08-27 13:41       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-08-27 14:48         ` Alex Dewar
2020-08-27 16:58           ` Joe Perches
2020-08-27 19:42             ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2020-08-27 20:29               ` Joe Perches
2020-08-27 21:00                 ` Joe Perches
2020-08-27 21:29                 ` Julia Lawall
2020-08-27 22:03                 ` David Laight
2020-08-27 22:11                   ` Joe Perches
2020-08-27 22:16                     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-27 21:01               ` Denis Efremov
2020-08-27 21:36                 ` Julia Lawall
2020-08-27 21:44                   ` Joe Perches
2020-08-27 22:38                     ` Denis Efremov
2020-08-27 22:48                       ` Joe Perches
2020-08-27 22:20                 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-27 22:45                   ` Joe Perches
2020-08-28  4:12                     ` Joe Perches
2020-08-28  7:58                       ` Kees Cook
2020-08-28  8:10                         ` Joe Perches
2020-08-28  8:22                           ` Joe Perches
2020-08-28  7:39                   ` David Laight
2020-08-27 21:54             ` David Laight

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