On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 07:08:38AM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 12:29 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When working on some documentation scripts to show the
> > Documentation/ABI/ files in an automated way, I ran across this "gem" of
> > a sysfs file: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-aer_stats
> >
> > In it you describe how the files
> > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/aer_dev_correctable and
> > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/aer_dev_fatal and
> > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/aer_dev_nonfatal
> > all display a bunch of text on multiple lines.
> >
> > This violates the "one value per sysfs file" rule, and should never have
> > been merged as-is :(
> >
> > Please fix it up to be a lot of individual files if your really need all
> > of those different values.
> >
> > Remember, sysfs files should never have to have a parser to read them
> > other than a simple "what is this single value", and you should NEVER
> > have fun macros like:
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(strings_array); i++) { \
> > if (strings_array[i]) \
> > str += sprintf(str, "%s %llu\n", \
> > strings_array[i], stats[i]); \
> > else if (stats[i]) \
> > str += sprintf(str, #stats_array "_bit[%d]
> > %llu\n",\
> > i, stats[i]); \
> > } \
> > str += sprintf(str, "TOTAL_%s %llu\n", total_string, \
> > pdev->aer_stats->total_field); \
> >
> > spit out sysfs information.
> >
> > Note, I am all for not properly checking the length of the sysfs file
> > when writing to it, but that is ONLY because you "know" that a single
> > integer will never overflow anything. Here you are writing a ton of
> > different values, with no error checking at all. So just when I thought
> > it couldn't be any worse...
> >
> > Please fix.
> >
>
> My apologies. I will discuss with Bjorn and fix this.
thank you. I'll be glad to review patches for this.
thanks,
greg k-h
