[SRU][J:linux-bluefield][PATCH v1 5/5] mlxbf-bootctl: use sysfs_emit_at() in secure_boot_fuse_state_show()

David Thompson davthompson at nvidia.com
Fri May 2 18:42:01 UTC 2025


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2109804

A warning is seen when running the latest kernel on a BlueField SOC:
[251.512704] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[251.512711] invalid sysfs_emit: buf:0000000003aa32ae
[251.512720] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 705264 at fs/sysfs/file.c:767 sysfs_emit+0xac/0xc8

The warning is triggered because the mlxbf-bootctl driver invokes
"sysfs_emit()" with a buffer pointer that is not aligned to the
start of the page. The driver should instead use "sysfs_emit_at()"
to support non-zero offsets into the destination buffer.

Fixes: 9886f575de5a ("platform/mellanox: mlxbf-bootctl: use sysfs_emit() instead of sprintf()")
Signed-off-by: David Thompson <davthompson at nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250407132558.2418719-1-davthompson@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen at linux.intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit b129005ddfc0e6daf04a6d3b928a9e474f9b3918)
Signed-off-by: David Thompson <davthompson at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Shravan Kumar Ramani <shravankr at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-bootctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-bootctl.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-bootctl.c
index fba9a08d6dfb..d35d2046e856 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-bootctl.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-bootctl.c
@@ -495,9 +495,9 @@ static ssize_t secure_boot_fuse_state_show(struct device *dev,
 			else
 				status = valid ? "Invalid" : "Free";
 		}
-		buf_len += sysfs_emit(buf + buf_len, "%d:%s ", key, status);
+		buf_len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, buf_len, "%d:%s ", key, status);
 	}
-	buf_len += sysfs_emit(buf + buf_len, "\n");
+	buf_len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, buf_len, "\n");
 
 	return buf_len;
 }
-- 
2.43.2




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