Re: [PATCH v2] EDAC/mc_sysfs: Add missing newlines when printing {max,dimm}_location

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Sep 18 2020 - 09:31:11 EST


On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 09:12 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:37:28AM +0800, Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
> > Thansk a lot. I will send another version. Also I will change the
> > 'snprintf' in 'dimmdev_location_show()' to 'scnprintf'
>
> No need to send another one - I have everything locally and just amended
> it.

A generic question about sysfs is whether or not the
PAGE_SIZE buf output should be newline terminated or
not if an the buffer is completely filled and the
desired output cannot be newline terminated.

Likely not.

NUL termination without newline should be enough to
indicate overrun.