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authorAdam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>2018-02-04 18:45:21 +0100
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2018-02-08 14:21:41 +0100
commit3a129cc2151425e5aeb69aeb25fbc994ec738137 (patch)
treedb4b82232e26bfe2df75f7654e524ad321a657e1 /lib/vsprintf.c
parentab486bc9a591689f3ac2b6ebc072309371f8f451 (diff)
vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px
Like %pK already does, print "00000000" instead. This confused people -- the convention is that "(null)" means you tried to dereference a null pointer as opposed to printing the address. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180204174521.21383-1-kilobyte@angband.pl To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/vsprintf.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/vsprintf.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 77ee6ced11b1..d7a708f82559 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
{
const int default_width = 2 * sizeof(void *);
- if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K') {
+ if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K' && *fmt != 'x') {
/*
* Print (null) with the same width as a pointer so it makes
* tabular output look nice.