Follow the advice in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst: show() should only use sysfs_emit() or sysfs_emit_at() when formatting the value to be returned to user space. Signed-off-by: Ai Chao <aichao@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-io.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-io.c index 595276206baf..97fefe6c38d1 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-io.c +++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-io.c @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ mlxreg_io_attr_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, mutex_unlock(&priv->io_lock); - return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", regval); + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", regval); access_error: mutex_unlock(&priv->io_lock); -- 2.47.1