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 v6 9/9] vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:23:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190208152310.29531-10-pmladek@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190208152310.29531-1-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 | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
index 732943b36828..0cbd98206a20 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
Plain Pointers
--------------
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 3a95b4d1ca2e..e51cbc2be540 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ char *ip_addr_string(char *buf, char *end, const void *ptr,
case AF_INET6:
return ip6_addr_string_sa(buf, end, &sa->v6, spec, fmt);
default:
- return string_nocheck(buf, end, "(invalid address)", spec);
+ return string_nocheck(buf, end, "(einval)", spec);
}}
}
--
2.13.7
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-08 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-08 15:23 [PATCH v6 0/9] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 1/9] vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer() Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 2/9] vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0 Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 3/9] vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 17:27 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 4/9] vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string() Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 5/9] vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format() Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 17:11 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-12 13:00 ` Petr Mladek
2019-02-12 14:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-12 17:58 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-12 19:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-12 20:22 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 6/9] vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string() Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 7/9] vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 17:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-12 13:35 ` Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 15:23 ` [PATCH v6 8/9] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers Petr Mladek
2019-02-19 3:30 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-02-19 11:02 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-19 12:51 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-02-19 13:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-19 14:15 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-02-20 10:24 ` Petr Mladek
2019-02-08 15:23 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2019-02-08 17:27 ` [PATCH v6 9/9] vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-12 15:45 ` Petr Mladek
2019-02-13 13:54 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-14 8:42 ` Petr Mladek
2019-02-14 12:45 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-19 3:03 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-02-19 11:06 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-20 9:24 ` Petr Mladek
2019-02-21 1:47 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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