printbuf now needs to know the number of characters that would have been written if the buffer was too small, like snprintf(); this changes string_get_size() to return the the return value of snprintf(). Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/string_helpers.h | 4 ++-- lib/string_helpers.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h index 67de398944..52e0f1d283 100644 --- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h +++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ enum string_size_units { STRING_UNITS_2, /* use binary powers of 2^10 */ }; -void string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, enum string_size_units units, - char *buf, int len); +int string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, enum string_size_units units, + char *buf, int len); #define UNESCAPE_SPACE BIT(0) #define UNESCAPE_OCTAL BIT(1) diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c index 167c31f377..c1c8d4dfc9 100644 --- a/lib/string_helpers.c +++ b/lib/string_helpers.c @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ * at least 9 bytes and will always be zero terminated. * */ -void string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, const enum string_size_units units, - char *buf, int len) +int string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, const enum string_size_units units, + char *buf, int len) { static const char *const units_10[] = { "B", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB", "ZB", "YB" @@ -127,8 +127,7 @@ void string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, const enum string_size_units units, else unit = units_str[units][i]; - snprintf(buf, len, "%u%s %s", (u32)size, - tmp, unit); + return snprintf(buf, len, "%u%s %s", (u32)size, tmp, unit); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(string_get_size); -- 2.36.1