From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 07/10] vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:50:45 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190418145045.GC16037@tigerII.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190417115350.20479-8-pmladek@suse.com>
On (04/17/19 13:53), Petr Mladek wrote:
> A reasonable compromise seems to be writing the unknown format specifier
> into the original string with a question mark, for example (%pC?).
> It should be self-explaining enough. Note that it is in brackets
> to follow the (null) style.
Ah, I misunderstood the meaning of the question mark. The question
mark here is not a question, but a `wildcard' symbol which is replacing
a missing or unrecognized symbol.
-ss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-18 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 11:53 [PATCH v7 00/10] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 01/10] vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer() Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 02/10] vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0 Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 13:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 03/10] vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 04/10] vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string() Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 05/10] vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format() Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 06/10] vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string() Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 07/10] vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers Petr Mladek
2019-04-18 14:34 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-04-18 14:43 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-04-18 14:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2019-06-25 10:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-26 10:46 ` Petr Mladek
2019-06-26 11:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 08/10] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 09/10] vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value Petr Mladek
2019-04-17 11:53 ` [PATCH v7 10/10] vsprintf: Limit the length of inlined error messages Petr Mladek
2019-04-19 1:51 ` [PATCH v7 00/10] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-04-24 13:53 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-26 13:02 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-04-26 14:27 ` Petr Mladek
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