Re: [PATCH V2] sysfs: Add sysfs_emit and sysfs_emit_at to format sysfs output

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Aug 30 2020 - 05:00:01 EST




On Sat, 29 Aug 2020, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sat, 2020-08-29 at 16:48 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf.
> >
> > sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer
> > used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the
> > PAGE_SIZE buffer length.
> >
> > Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the
> > temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done.
> >
> > Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple
> > call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done.
>
> This preliminary coccinelle script converts ~5000 instances treewide.
> There are still many remaining instances that could be converted.

Except for the issue with the ...s that has been discussed, this looks
basically reasonable to me.

julia


>
> $ git grep -w sysfs_emit -- '*.[ch]'|wc -l
> 4702
> $ git grep -w sysfs_emit_at -- '*.[ch]'|wc -l
> 229
>
> $ cat sysfs_emit.cocci
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier arg1, arg2, arg3;
> @@
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *
> - arg1
> + dev
> , struct device_attribute *
> - arg2
> + attr
> , char *
> - arg3
> + buf
> )
> {
> ...
> (
> - arg1
> + dev
> |
> - arg2
> + attr
> |
> - arg3
> + buf
> )
> ...
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - sprintf(buf,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> expression chr;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - strcpy(buf, chr);
> + sysfs_emit(buf, chr);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> len =
> - sprintf(buf,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> len =
> - snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> len =
> - scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> - len += scnprintf(buf + len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
> + len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier d_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier dev, attr, buf;
> expression chr;
> @@
>
> ssize_t d_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> - strcpy(buf, chr);
> - return strlen(buf);
> + return sysfs_emit(buf, chr);
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier arg1, arg2, arg3;
> @@
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *
> - arg1
> + kobj
> , struct kobj_attribute *
> - arg2
> + attr
> , char *
> - arg3
> + buf
> )
> {
> ...
> (
> - arg1
> + kobj
> |
> - arg2
> + attr
> |
> - arg3
> + buf
> )
> ...
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - sprintf(buf,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> expression chr;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> return
> - strcpy(buf, chr);
> + sysfs_emit(buf, chr);
> ...>
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> len =
> - sprintf(buf,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> len =
> - snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> len =
> - scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> + sysfs_emit(buf,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> identifier len;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> <...
> - len += scnprintf(buf + len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
> + len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len,
> ...);
> ...>
> return len;
> }
>
> @@
> identifier k_show =~ "^.*show.*$";
> identifier kobj, attr, buf;
> expression chr;
> @@
>
> ssize_t k_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> - strcpy(buf, chr);
> - return strlen(buf);
> + return sysfs_emit(buf, chr);
> }
>
>
>