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From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xiaosuo@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: + lib-fix-scnprintf-if-size-is-==-0.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:14:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009242214.o8OMEMTS028411@imap1.linux-foundation.org> (raw)


The patch titled
     lib: fix scnprintf() if @size is == 0
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     lib-fix-scnprintf-if-size-is-==-0.patch

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Subject: lib: fix scnprintf() if @size is == 0
From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>

scnprintf() should return 0 if @size is == 0. Update the comment for it,
as @size is unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/vsprintf.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN lib/vsprintf.c~lib-fix-scnprintf-if-size-is-==-0 lib/vsprintf.c
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c~lib-fix-scnprintf-if-size-is-==-0
+++ a/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(snprintf);
  * @...: Arguments for the format string
  *
  * The return value is the number of characters written into @buf not including
- * the trailing '\0'. If @size is <= 0 the function returns 0.
+ * the trailing '\0'. If @size is == 0 the function returns 0.
  */
 
 int scnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...)
@@ -1516,7 +1516,11 @@ int scnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, co
 	i = vsnprintf(buf, size, fmt, args);
 	va_end(args);
 
-	return (i >= size) ? (size - 1) : i;
+	if (likely(i < size))
+		return i;
+	if (size != 0)
+		return size - 1;
+	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(scnprintf);
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from xiaosuo@gmail.com are

linux-next.patch
timer-initialize-the-field-slack-of-timer_list.patch
lib-fix-scnprintf-if-size-is-==-0.patch


             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 22:14 UTC|newest]

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2010-09-24 22:15 + lib-fix-scnprintf-if-size-is-==-0.patch added to -mm tree akpm

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