On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 08:49 -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > We can enforce sysfs_emit going forwards > using tools like checkpatch It's not really possible for checkpatch to find or warn about sysfs uses of sprintf. checkpatch is really just a trivial line-by-line parser and it has no concept of code intent. It just can't warn on every use of the sprintf family. There are just too many perfectly valid uses. > but there's no benefit and a lot of harm to > be done by trying to churn the entire tree Single uses of sprintf for sysfs is not really any problem. But likely there are still several possible overrun sprintf/snprintf paths in sysfs. Some of them are very obscure and unlikely to be found by a robot as the logic for sysfs buf uses can be fairly twisty. But provably correct conversions IMO _should_ be done and IMO churn considerations should generally have less importance.
