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authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>2016-01-15 16:58:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-16 11:17:26 -0800
commitd048419311ff16ba420f4b1bdf93a3d74057b53a (patch)
treef7c7ca69b73f37b7227f1723ad48a1ae71068b01 /CREDITS
parent34fc8b9076254513e00607134792a1b67483d2cf (diff)
lib/vsprintf.c: expand field_width to 24 bits
Maurizio Lombardi reported a problem [1] with the %pb extension: It doesn't work for sufficiently large bitmaps, since the size is stashed in the field_width field of the struct printf_spec, which is currently an s16. Concretely, this manifested itself in /sys/bus/pseudo/drivers/scsi_debug/map being empty, since the bitmap printer got a size of 0, which is the 16 bit truncation of the actual bitmap size. We do want to keep struct printf_spec at 8 bytes so that it can cheaply be passed by value. The qualifier field is only used for internal bookkeeping in format_decode, so we might as well use a local variable for that. This gives us an additional 8 bits, which we can then use for the field width. To stay in 8 bytes, we need to do a little rearranging and make the type member a bitfield as well. For consistency, change all the members to bit fields. gcc doesn't generate much worse code with these changes (in fact, bloat-o-meter says we save 300 bytes - which I think is a little surprising). I didn't find a BUILD_BUG/compiletime_assertion/... which would work outside function context, so for now I just open-coded it. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2034835 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid open-coded BUILD_BUG_ON] Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reported-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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