Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] HID: core: only warn once of oversize hid report

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jul 22 2019 - 17:31:03 EST


On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 15:26 -0600, stillcompiling@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Joshua

> On HP spectre x360 convertible the message:
> hid-sensor-hub 001F:8087:0AC2.0002: hid_field_extract() called with n (192) > 32! (kworker/1:2)
> is continually printed many times per second, crowding out all else
> Protect dmesg by printing the warning only one time.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
[]
> @@ -1311,8 +1311,8 @@ u32 hid_field_extract(const struct hid_device *hid, u8 *report,
> unsigned offset, unsigned n)
> {
> if (n > 32) {
> - hid_warn(hid, "hid_field_extract() called with n (%d) > 32! (%s)\n",
> - n, current->comm);
> + hid_warn_once(hid, "%s() called with n (%d) > 32! (%s)\n",
> + __func__ ,n , current->comm);

All the other bits are fine, but this line is oddly written
with unusual spacing around 'n'.

Normally it'd be something like:

hid_warn_once(hid, "%s: called with n (%d) > 32! (%s)\n",
__func__, n, current->comm);