On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:39 PM Rasmus Villemoes
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It has been suggested several times to extend vsnprintf() to be able
> to convert the numeric value of ENOSPC to print "ENOSPC". This is yet
> another attempt. Rather than adding another %p extension, simply teach
> plain %p to convert ERR_PTRs. While the primary use case is
>
> if (IS_ERR(foo)) {
> pr_err("Sorry, can't do that: %p\n", foo);
> return PTR_ERR(foo);
> }
>
> it is also more helpful to get a symbolic error code (or, worst case,
> a decimal number) in case an ERR_PTR is accidentally passed to some
> %p<something>, rather than the (efault) that check_pointer() would
> result in.
>
> With my embedded hat on, I've made it possible to remove this.
>
> I've tested that the #ifdeffery in errcode.c is sufficient to make
> this compile on arm, arm64, mips, powerpc, s390, x86 - I'm sure the
> 0day bot will tell me which ones I've missed.
>
> The symbols to include have been found by massaging the output of
>
> find arch include -iname 'errno*.h' | xargs grep -E 'define\s*E'
>
> In the cases where some common aliasing exists
> (e.g. EAGAIN=EWOULDBLOCK on all platforms, EDEADLOCK=EDEADLK on most),
> I've moved the more popular one (in terms of 'git grep -w Efoo | wc)
> to the bottom so that one takes precedence.
> +#define E(err) [err + BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(err <= 0 || err > 300)] = #err
> +#define E(err) [err - 512 + BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(err < 512 || err > 550)] = #err
>From long term prospective 300 and 550 hard coded here may be forgotten.
> +const char *errcode(int err)
We got long, why not to use long type for it?
> +{
> + /* Might as well accept both -EIO and EIO. */
> + if (err < 0)
> + err = -err;
> + if (err <= 0) /* INT_MIN or 0 */
> + return NULL;
> + if (err < ARRAY_SIZE(codes_0))
> + return codes_0[err];
It won't work if one of the #ifdef:s in the array fails.
Would it?
> + if (err >= 512 && err - 512 < ARRAY_SIZE(codes_512))
> + return codes_512[err - 512];
> + /* But why? */
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && err == EDQUOT) /* 1133 */
> + return "EDQUOT";
> + return NULL;
> +}
> + long err = PTR_ERR(ptr);
> + const char *sym = errcode(-err);
Do we need additional sign change if we already have such check inside
errcode()?
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
