Re: [PATCHv3 2/3] lib: printf: append support of '%*ph[CDN]'

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jul 04 2012 - 11:09:45 EST


On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:45 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> This patch adds a support of the variable width buffer to print it
> as a hex string with a delimiter.

Hi again Andy.

> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
[]
> @@ -655,6 +655,57 @@ char *resource_string(char *buf, char *end, struct resource *res,
> }
>
> static noinline_for_stack
> +char *hex_string(char *buf, char *end, u8 *addr, struct printf_spec spec,
> + const char *fmt)
> +{
> + char hex_str[8*3+1]; /* support up to 8 bytes to print */

I think you don't need hex_str at all.

[]

> + if (spec.field_width <= 0)
> + /* nothing to print */
> + return buf;

It may be better to default to a 1 and add

if (addr == ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR)

to avoid dereferencing a NULL or a pointer
to a zero length object.

> +
> + len = min_t(int, spec.field_width, 64);
> +
> + while (i < len) {
> + p = hex_str;
> + for (j = 0; j < 8 && i < len; j++, i++) {
> + p = hex_byte_pack(p, addr[i]);
> +
> + if (separator && i != len - 1)
> + *p++ = separator;
> + }
> + *p = '\0';
> +
> + for (p = hex_str; *p != '\0'; p++) {
> + if (buf < end)
> + *buf = *p;
> + ++buf;
> + }

why not just directly write to *buf as long as buf < end?

cheers, Joe

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/