On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 04:35:39PM +0800, Chen Zhou wrote: > snprintf() returns the number of bytes that would be written, > which may be greater than the the actual length to be written. > > show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the > buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf(). > > Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzho...@huawei.com> > --- > arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c > index 993fefdc167a..d20626451a2e 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c > @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ static ssize_t l2x0_pmu_event_show(struct device *dev, > struct l2x0_event_attribute *lattr; > > lattr = container_of(attr, typeof(*lattr), attr); > - return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "config=0x%x\n", lattr->config); > + return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "config=0x%x\n", lattr->config);
This should just be replaced with sprintf() as there's no way such a string can go beyond PAGE_SIZE. And the "config=" part could be dropped as well, but now userspace probably requires it, that is sad. thanks, greg k-h
