The patch titled lib/vsprintf.c: fix vscnprintf() if @size is == 0 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-fix-vscnprintf-if-size-is-==-0.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: lib/vsprintf.c: fix vscnprintf() if @size is == 0 From: Anton Arapov <aarapov@xxxxxxxxxx> vscnprintf() should return 0 if @size is == 0. Update the comment for it, as @size is unsigned. This change based on the code of commit b903c0b8899b46829a9b80ba55b61079b35940ec ("lib: fix scnprintf() if @size is == 0") moves the real fix into vscnprinf() from scnprintf() and makes scnprintf() call vscnprintf(), thus avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <aarapov@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/vsprintf.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/vsprintf.c~lib-fix-vscnprintf-if-size-is-==-0 lib/vsprintf.c --- a/lib/vsprintf.c~lib-fix-vscnprintf-if-size-is-==-0 +++ a/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vsnprintf); * @args: Arguments for the format string * * The return value is the number of characters which have been written into - * the @buf not including the trailing '\0'. If @size is <= 0 the function + * the @buf not including the trailing '\0'. If @size is == 0 the function * returns 0. * * Call this function if you are already dealing with a va_list. @@ -1487,7 +1487,11 @@ int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, c i = vsnprintf(buf, size, fmt, args); - return (i >= size) ? (size - 1) : i; + if (likely(i < size)) + return i; + if (size != 0) + return size - 1; + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(vscnprintf); @@ -1535,14 +1539,10 @@ int scnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, co int i; va_start(args, fmt); - i = vsnprintf(buf, size, fmt, args); + i = vscnprintf(buf, size, fmt, args); va_end(args); - if (likely(i < size)) - return i; - if (size != 0) - return size - 1; - return 0; + return i; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(scnprintf); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarapov@xxxxxxxxxx are lib-fix-vscnprintf-if-size-is-==-0.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html