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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 11/11] vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:12:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180425111251.13246-12-pmladek@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180425111251.13246-1-pmladek@suse.com>

We are able to detect invalid values handled by %p[iI] printk specifier.
The current error message is "invalid address". It might cause confusion
against "(efault)" reported by the generic valid_pointer_address() check.

Let's unify the style and use the more appropriate error code description
"(einval)".

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
---
 Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 1 +
 lib/vsprintf.c                            | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
index 3b25adde1ec7..e1a0ef2179f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ might be printed instead of the unreachable information::
 
 	(null)	 data on plain NULL address
 	(efault) data on invalid address
+	(einval) invalid data on a valid address
 
 Also a WARN_ON() is triggered when non-NULL address is not reachable
 and panic_on_warn is disabled.
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 46e3e7c71229..79ee96afd538 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1473,8 +1473,7 @@ char *ip_addr_string(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, struct printf_spec spec,
 		case AF_INET6:
 			return ip6_addr_string_sa(buf, end, &sa->v6, spec, fmt);
 		default:
-			return valid_string(buf, end, "(invalid address)",
-					    spec);
+			return valid_string(buf, end, "(einval)", spec);
 		}}
 	}
 
-- 
2.13.6

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-25 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-25 11:12 [PATCH v5 00/11] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 01/11] vsprintf: Shuffle misc pointer to string functions Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:57   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 02/11] vsprintf: Add missing const ptr qualifier to prt_to_id() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:57   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 03/11] vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0 Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:58   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 04/11] vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 11:44   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 05/11] vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 13:08   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 06/11] vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 13:11   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 07/11] vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:56   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 08/11] vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 15:01   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 09/11] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 15:10   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 15:32     ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-27 12:47     ` Petr Mladek
2018-05-03 11:55       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-26 21:46   ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 10/11] vsprintf: WARN() on invalid pointer access Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 12:43   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-04-26  1:28   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-04-27 12:37     ` Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 11:12 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2018-04-27 14:10 ` [PATCH v5 00/11] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling Petr Mladek

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