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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avagin@virtuozzo.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: fix /proc/*/map_files lookup some more
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:29:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180221202911.GC2092@uranus.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180221120403.504b7f1c814618bac39bb78b@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:04:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I don't know this code and I'm all confused.
> 
> - why is the code designed to accept addresses of "0"?

It was never designed to accept addresses of 0, it is rather
a side effect of using sscanf in first place.

The address priting is done via

	len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%lx-%lx", p->start, p->end);

> - how do we know that the first digit of a VMA address will never be 0?

It should not be, due to snprintf above.
---

Thanks a lot, Alexey!

Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-21 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-21 18:44 [PATCH] proc: fix /proc/*/map_files lookup some more Alexey Dobriyan
2018-02-21 18:51 ` Al Viro
2018-02-21 19:53   ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-02-21 20:04     ` Andrew Morton
2018-02-21 20:29       ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2018-02-21 20:58       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-03 21:51 Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-04 20:53 ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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