Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove all uses of printf's %n

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> All users of %n are calculating padding size when using seq_file, so
>> instead use the new last_len member for discovering the length of the
>> written strings.
>
> Would it make sense to provide a seq_pad(...) function instead, to avoid
> exposing more seq_file internals to its callers?

We'd still need to track how much to pad.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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