sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the PAGE_SIZE buffer length. Use a generic sysfs_emit function that knows the size of the temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done for offset attribute. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 7fa6f68d7e41..a55e5eda1d17 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static ssize_t loop_attr_dio_show(struct loop_device *lo, char *buf) { int dio = (lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO); - return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", dio ? "1" : "0"); + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", dio ? "1" : "0"); } LOOP_ATTR_RO(backing_file); -- 2.29.0