netdev - Re: [PATCH -next 2/2] seq_putc: Convert to return void and convert uses too.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:47:40 +0100
From:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 2/2] seq_putc: Convert to return void and convert
 uses too.

On Mon 2014-11-10 10:58:57, Joe Perches wrote:
> Using the return value of seq_putc is error-prone, so
> make it return void instead.
> 
> Reverse the logic in seq_putc to make it like seq_puts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>

The changes are correct. The show() functions should return 0
even when there is an overflow. They are called by traverse()
from seq_read() that might increase the buffer size and try again.


Best Regards,
Petr
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html