Per filesystems/sysfs.rst, show() should only use sysfs_emit() or sysfs_emit_at() when formatting the value to be returned to user space.
coccinelle complains that there are still a couple of functions that use snprintf(). Convert them to sysfs_emit(). sprintf() will be converted as weel if they have. Generally, this patch is generated by make coccicheck M=<path/to/file> MODE=patch \ COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/api/device_attr_show.cocci No functional change intended CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> CC: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> CC: Xuan Zhuo <xuanz...@linux.alibaba.com> CC: virtualizat...@lists.linux.dev Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhij...@fujitsu.com> --- This is a part of the work "Fix coccicheck device_attr_show warnings"[1] Split them per subsystem so that the maintainer can review it easily [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240116041129.3937800-1-lizhij...@fujitsu.com/ --- drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c index d0695680b282..7b82b9aa91e9 100644 --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_show(struct device *dev, ssize_t len; device_lock(dev); - len = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", vdev->driver_override); + len = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", vdev->driver_override); device_unlock(dev); return len; -- 2.29.2