diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/dev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/dev.c
index fa0288afc0dd4e42992c0a1e96f4314216432af4..871c2fbe18d39f541fd076abb2e403844c685c25 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/dev.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static ssize_t sfnum_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, cha
 	struct auxiliary_device *adev = container_of(dev, struct auxiliary_device, dev);
 	struct mlx5_sf_dev *sf_dev = container_of(adev, struct mlx5_sf_dev, adev);
 
-	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n", sf_dev->sfnum);
+	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", sf_dev->sfnum);
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(sfnum);