From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rasmus Villemoes Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix transposition typo in format string Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:11:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1424441495-32581-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Andreas Dilger Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org According to C99, %*.s means the same as %*.0s, in other words, print as many spaces as the field width argument says and effectively ignore the string argument. That is certainly not what was meant here. The kernel's printf implementation, however, treats it as if the . was not there, i.e. as %*s. I don't know if de->name is nul-terminated or not, but in any case I'm guessing the intention was to use de->name_len as precision instead of field width. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes --- If de->name is not guaranteed to be nul-terminated, I suppose this is even -stable material. fs/ext4/inline.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c index 4b143febf21f..8b64d715e476 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ void ext4_show_inline_dir(struct inode *dir, struct buffer_head *bh, offset = 0; while ((void *)de < dlimit) { de_len = ext4_rec_len_from_disk(de->rec_len, inline_size); - trace_printk("de: off %u rlen %u name %*.s nlen %u ino %u\n", + trace_printk("de: off %u rlen %u name %.*s nlen %u ino %u\n", offset, de_len, de->name_len, de->name, de->name_len, le32_to_cpu(de->inode)); if (ext4_check_dir_entry(dir, NULL, de, bh, -- 2.1.3