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On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 22:03 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Joe Perches
> > Sent: 27 August 2020 21:30
> ...
> > Perhaps what's necessary is to find any
> > appropriate .show function and change
> > any use of strcpy/sprintf within those
> > function to some other name.
> > 
> > For instance:
> > 
> > drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-static ssize_t name_show(struct device *dev,
> > drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-                       struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> > drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-{
> > drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c:      strcpy(buf, dev_name(dev));
> > drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-      return strlen(buf);
> > drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-}
> > drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c-static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name);
> 
> That form ends up calculating the string length twice.
> Better would be:
> 	len = strlen(msg);
> 	memcpy(buf, msg, len);
> 	return len;

or given clang's requirement for stpcpy

	return stpcpy(buf, dev_name(dev)) - buf;

(I do not advocate for this ;)