vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:53:47 +0000 (13:53 +0200)
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:20:20 +0000 (16:20 +0200)
commit0b74d4d763fd4ee9daa53889324300587c015338
treef3ea32ac58c04f182fda454f6ed7a009d7bb2452
parent798cc27a305e7b35b7bff3a71257e6fe57f70bc1
vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers

There are few printk formats that make sense only with two or more
specifiers. Also some specifiers make sense only when a kernel feature
is enabled.

The handling of unknown specifiers is inconsistent and not helpful.
Using WARN() looks like an overkill for this type of error. pr_warn()
is not good either. It would by handled via printk_safe buffer and
it might be hard to match it with the problematic string.

A reasonable compromise seems to be writing the unknown format specifier
into the original string with a question mark, for example (%pC?).
It should be self-explaining enough. Note that it is in brackets
to follow the (null) style.

Note that it introduces a warning about that test_hashed() function
is unused. It is going to be used again by a later patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417115350.20479-8-pmladek@suse.com
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
lib/test_printf.c
lib/vsprintf.c