From: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] Add safe vsnprintf and snprintf library functions
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:56:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7D1C91.1030808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316799532-20761-3-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org>
Hi Simon,
On 24/09/11 03:38, Simon Glass wrote:
> From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
>
> From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
>
> These functions are useful in U-Boot because they allow a graceful failure
> rather than an unpredictable stack overflow when printf() buffers are
> exceeded.
>
> Mostly copied from the Linux kernel. I copied vscnprintf and
> scnprintf so we can change printf and vprintf to use the safe
> implementation but still return the correct values.
Have you checked for license compatibility? U-Boot is GPLv2+ and (most) of
Linux is GPLv2 - You may not be legally permitted to do this
Regards,
Graeme
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 17:38 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Buffer overruns in printf Simon Glass
2011-09-23 17:38 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] Add limits.h to hold basic limits Simon Glass
2011-09-23 17:38 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] Add safe vsnprintf and snprintf library functions Simon Glass
2011-09-23 23:56 ` Graeme Russ [this message]
2011-09-28 23:26 ` Sonny Rao
2011-09-29 0:00 ` Graeme Russ
2011-09-29 0:38 ` Sonny Rao
2011-09-29 0:44 ` Graeme Russ
2011-09-23 17:38 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] Make printf and vprintf safe from buffer overruns Simon Glass
2011-09-23 18:36 ` Kumar Gala
2011-09-23 18:48 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-23 20:31 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-23 20:41 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-23 22:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-23 23:06 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-25 20:16 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-25 20:14 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-26 18:25 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-26 18:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-26 19:02 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-23 17:38 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] Use snprintf() in network code Simon Glass
2011-09-23 18:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-23 18:30 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-23 20:09 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-23 20:39 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-23 20:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Buffer overruns in printf Albert ARIBAUD
2011-09-23 20:46 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-24 9:37 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-09-24 14:00 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-25 8:40 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-09-25 14:50 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-26 11:20 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-09-26 17:50 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-26 18:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-26 22:28 ` Scott Wood
2011-09-27 6:52 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-10 19:06 ` Simon Glass
2011-10-10 20:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-10 20:42 ` Simon Glass
2011-09-25 20:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-26 17:30 ` Simon Glass
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