Re: [PATCH] rfkill: Use sysfs_emit() to instead of sprintf()

From: Simon Horman
Date: Fri Feb 03 2023 - 14:07:47 EST


Hi Bo Liu,

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 03:17:18AM -0500, Bo Liu wrote:
> Follow the advice of the Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst and show()
> should only use sysfs_emit() or sysfs_emit_at() when formatting the
> value to be returned to user space.

Thanks for your patch. As it is not a bug fix it should be targeted at
'net-next' (as opposed to 'net'). This should be specified in the patch
subject something like this:

[PATCH net-next v2] rfkill: Use sysfs_emit() to instead of sprintf()

> Signed-off-by: Bo Liu <liubo03@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/rfkill/core.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/rfkill/core.c b/net/rfkill/core.c
> index b390ff245d5e..a103b2da4ed2 100644
> --- a/net/rfkill/core.c
> +++ b/net/rfkill/core.c

...

> @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ static ssize_t hard_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
> {
> struct rfkill *rfkill = to_rfkill(dev);
>
> - return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (rfkill->state & RFKILL_BLOCK_HW) ? 1 : 0 );
> + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", (rfkill->state & RFKILL_BLOCK_HW) ? 1 : 0 );
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", (rfkill->state & RFKILL_BLOCK_HW) ? 1 : 0);

./scripts/checkpatch.pl complains that there should not be a space before
the last ')'.