Merge tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Allow state reset of printk_once() calls.

 - Prevent crashes when dereferencing invalid pointers in vsprintf().
   Only the first byte is checked for simplicity.

 - Make vsprintf warnings consistent and inlined.

 - Treewide conversion of obsolete %pf, %pF to %ps, %pF printf
   modifiers.

 - Some clean up of vsprintf and test_printf code.

* tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  lib/vsprintf: Make function pointer_string static
  vsprintf: Limit the length of inlined error messages
  vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
  vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
  vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
  vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string()
  vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format()
  vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()
  vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings
  vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0
  vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer()
  printk: Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset
  treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
  lib/test_printf: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt
index 5b1f5d547be1..c68598b31428 100644
--- a/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt
+++ b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-WARN_ONCE / WARN_ON_ONCE only print a warning once.
+WARN_ONCE / WARN_ON_ONCE / printk_once only emit a message once.
 
 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once
 
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
index c37ec7cd9c06..75d2bbe9813f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ A raw pointer value may be printed with %p which will hash the address
 before printing. The kernel also supports extended specifiers for printing
 pointers of different types.
 
+Some of the extended specifiers print the data on the given address instead
+of printing the address itself. In this case, the following error messages
+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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