From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit a28e4b2b18ccb90df402da3f21e1a83c9d4f8ec1 upstream. Removing unnecessary static buffers is good. Use the vsprintf %pV extension instead. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/hpfs/super.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/hpfs/super.c b/fs/hpfs/super.c index 3d6f8972d06e..115cb10bfd7c 100644 --- a/fs/hpfs/super.c +++ b/fs/hpfs/super.c @@ -52,17 +52,20 @@ static void unmark_dirty(struct super_block *s) } /* Filesystem error... */ -static char err_buf[1024]; - void hpfs_error(struct super_block *s, const char *fmt, ...) { + struct va_format vaf; va_list args; va_start(args, fmt); - vsnprintf(err_buf, sizeof(err_buf), fmt, args); + + vaf.fmt = fmt; + vaf.va = &args; + + pr_err("filesystem error: %pV", &vaf); + va_end(args); - printk("HPFS: filesystem error: %s", err_buf); if (!hpfs_sb(s)->sb_was_error) { if (hpfs_sb(s)->sb_err == 2) { printk("; crashing the system because you wanted it\n"); -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html