Re: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers

Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-15T13:09:07Z

On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 15:09 +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> We already prevent crash when dereferencing some obviously broken
> pointers. But the handling is not consistent. Sometimes we print
> "(null)"
> only for pure NULL pointer, sometimes for pointers in the first
> page and

> sometimes also for pointers in the last page (error codes).

I still think that printing a hex value of the error code is much better
than some odd "(efault)".

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy