On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 07:22:11PM -0400, Harinath Nampally wrote: > This patch fixes the miscoded use of return value of snprintf > by using the scnprintf function which returns the length of actual > string created in the buffer. > > Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c > index 1467199..6908bc1 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c > @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ static ssize_t power_state_show(struct device *dev, > { > struct tsl2X7X_chip *chip = iio_priv(dev_to_iio_dev(dev)); > > - return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", chip->tsl2x7x_chip_status); > + return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", chip->tsl2x7x_chip_status); It should just be sprintf(), no need for testing for PAGE_SIZE for sysfs attributes, we "know" an integer will not overflow that buffer. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel