Re: [PATCH -next 0/3] s390: use scnprintf() in show() methods

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Mon Jun 08 2020 - 10:28:38 EST


On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 04:56:05PM +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().
>
> Chen Zhou (3):
> s390/crypto: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()
> s390: use scnprintf() in sys_##_prefix##_##_name##_show
> s390/protvirt: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()
>
> arch/s390/crypto/prng.c | 14 +++++++-------
> arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 2 +-
> arch/s390/kernel/uv.c | 8 ++++----
> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

All applied, even though the buffer has a size of 4k in all cases.
So this doesn't fix anything; but it doesn't hurt as well.