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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] string: provide strscpy() and strscpy_truncate()
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 12:00:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150507090034.GV16501@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUuaRGn10_k+Gm7vG5P_=QfSw7Mao3oB_u2Poy=PeiGtg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:45:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > We actually do have a __must_check tag so it's easy enough to force
> > people to check.  A different option is we could make it trigger a
> 
> People tend to ignore compiler warnings...

We're doing a lot better these days with zero day build testing.  There
is not even one ignored __must_check return in my allmodconfig.

> 
> > WARN_ONCE().
> >
> > #define strXcpy(dest, src, len) (({                             \
> >         ssize_t __ret = strscpy_truncate(dest, src, len);       \
> >         WARN_ONCE(__ret < 0, "strXcpy trancates\n");            \
> >         __ret; }))
> 
> Which will probably trigger only in extreme cases in the wild, not during
> development.

It's less subtle than just putting an empty string there so we're more
likely to get bug reports than with the original code.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CA+55aFwbRZe5gVsTyHvjKqE5eA3zQ_58_UQW7KACCt7V7FpZbQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-30 16:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] add new strscpy() API for string copy Chris Metcalf
2015-04-30 16:01   ` [PATCH 1/3] Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures Chris Metcalf
2015-04-30 16:01     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-30 16:01   ` [PATCH 2/3] string: provide strscpy() and strscpy_truncate() Chris Metcalf
2015-04-30 16:01     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-05-06 15:01     ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-06 15:21       ` Chris Metcalf
2015-05-06 15:59         ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-06 16:45           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-05-07  9:00             ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-05-07 15:10               ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-30 16:01   ` [PATCH 3/3] tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy Chris Metcalf
2015-04-30 16:01     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-05-11 15:37   ` [PATCH 0/3] add new strscpy() API for string copy Chris Metcalf
2015-05-14 23:10   ` Michael Ellerman
2015-05-15 15:15     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-05-18  1:13       ` Michael Ellerman
2015-05-26 19:33         ` Chris Metcalf
     [not found]   ` <CA+55aFwokKo9X4=wwZ1sKLmLfye=a65KPzMhe-QzuHT6Prp0tA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-07-08 20:20     ` [PATCH v2 " Chris Metcalf
2015-07-08 20:20       ` Chris Metcalf
2015-07-08 20:20       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures Chris Metcalf
2015-07-08 20:20         ` Chris Metcalf
2015-07-08 20:20       ` [PATCH v2 2/3] string: provide strscpy() Chris Metcalf
2015-07-08 20:20         ` Chris Metcalf
2015-07-08 20:54         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-07-08 20:20       ` [PATCH v2 3/3] tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy Chris Metcalf
2015-07-08 20:20         ` Chris Metcalf

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