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authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2019-04-17 13:53:49 +0200
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2019-04-26 16:21:03 +0200
commit635720ac75a51092b456bed517ff170047883252 (patch)
tree9f458a2c4488835f3935301a87d976c04d4f2532 /Documentation/core-api
parent3e5903eb9cff707301712498aed9e34b3e2ee883 (diff)
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vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
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)". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417115350.20479-10-pmladek@suse.com To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
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@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ 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
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