diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index ddf15b1b0d5a..33ec0a01450d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -232,12 +232,10 @@ Other notes:
   is 4096. 
 
 - show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the
-  buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf().
+  buffer.
 
-- show() must not use snprintf() when formatting the value to be
-  returned to user space. If you can guarantee that an overflow
-  will never happen you can use sprintf() otherwise you must use
-  scnprintf().
+- show() should only use sysfs_emit() or sysfs_emit_at() when formatting
+  the value to be returned to user space.
 
 - store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the
   entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument.
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 130fc6fbcc03..4f7cf975b27c 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 #include "sysfs.h"
 
@@ -558,3 +559,57 @@ void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
 	kernfs_remove_by_name(kobj->sd, attr->attr.name);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_bin_file);
+
+/**
+ *	sysfs_emit - scnprintf equivalent, aware of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@buf:	start of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@fmt:	format
+ *	@...:	optional arguments to @format
+ *
+ *
+ * Returns number of characters written to @buf.
+ */
+int sysfs_emit(char *buf, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+	int len;
+
+	if (WARN(!buf || offset_in_page(buf),
+		 "invalid sysfs_emit: buf:%p\n", buf))
+		return 0;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+
+	return len;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_emit);
+
+/**
+ *	sysfs_emit_at - scnprintf equivalent, aware of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@buf:	start of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@at:	offset in @buf to start write in bytes
+ *		@at must be >= 0 && < PAGE_SIZE
+ *	@fmt:	format
+ *	@...:	optional arguments to @fmt
+ *
+ *
+ * Returns number of characters written starting at &@buf[@at].
+ */
+int sysfs_emit_at(char *buf, int at, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+	int len;
+
+	if (WARN(!buf || offset_in_page(buf) || at < 0 || at >= PAGE_SIZE,
+		 "invalid sysfs_emit_at: buf:%p at:%d\n", buf, at))
+		return 0;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf + at, PAGE_SIZE - at, fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+
+	return len;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_emit_at);
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index fa7ee503fb76..428707ac3c0b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -310,6 +310,11 @@ static inline void sysfs_enable_ns(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 	return kernfs_enable_ns(kn);
 }
 
+__printf(2, 3)
+int sysfs_emit(char *buf, const char *fmt, ...);
+__printf(3, 4)
+int sysfs_emit_at(char *buf, int at, const char *fmt, ...);
+
 #else /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
 static inline int sysfs_create_dir_ns(struct kobject *kobj, const void *ns)
@@ -522,6 +527,17 @@ static inline void sysfs_enable_ns(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 {
 }
 
+__printf(2, 3)
+static inline int sysfs_emit(char *buf, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__printf(3, 4)
+static inline int sysfs_emit_at(char *buf, int at, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
 static inline int __must_check sysfs_create_file(struct kobject *kobj,