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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Justin He <Justin.He@arm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
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	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFCv2 2/3] lib/vsprintf.c: make %pD print full path for file
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 18:36:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VfYgEtJeiVp8b10Va54QShyg4DmWeufuB_WGC8C2SE2mQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YLZSgZIcWyYTmqOT@casper.infradead.org>

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 6:32 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 02:42:15PM +0000, Justin He wrote:

...

> Just don't put anything
> in the buffer if the user didn't supply enough space.  As long as you
> get the return value right, they know the string is bad (or they don't
> care if the string is bad)

It might be that I'm out of context here, but printf() functionality
in the kernel (vsprintf() if being precise)  and its users consider
that it should fill buffer up to the end of whatever space is
available.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-28 11:39 [PATCH RFCv2 0/3] make '%pD' print full path for file Jia He
2021-05-28 11:39 ` [PATCH RFCv2 1/3] fs: introduce helper d_path_fast() Jia He
2021-05-28 12:37   ` kernel test robot
2021-05-28 12:44   ` Al Viro
2021-05-28 12:51   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-28 14:23     ` Justin He
2021-05-28 16:02   ` kernel test robot
2021-05-28 11:39 ` [PATCH RFCv2 2/3] lib/vsprintf.c: make %pD print full path for file Jia He
2021-05-28 12:59   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-28 14:22     ` Justin He
2021-05-28 14:52       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-28 15:09         ` Justin He
2021-05-28 15:22           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-31  0:39             ` Justin He
2021-06-01 14:42             ` Justin He
2021-06-01 15:30               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-01 15:36                 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-06-01 15:44                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-01 15:53                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-01 16:10                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-01 17:05                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-01 19:01                           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-06-02  5:47                             ` Justin He
2021-05-28 20:06       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-05-30 15:18         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-31  9:40           ` Petr Mladek
2021-05-30 20:51   ` kernel test robot
2021-05-28 11:39 ` [PATCH RFCv2 3/3] s390/hmcdrv: remove the redundant directory path in debug message Jia He
2021-05-29  0:26 [PATCH RFCv2 2/3] lib/vsprintf.c: make %pD print full path for file kernel test robot

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