vsprintf will consume varargs on its own. Skipping them manually results in garbage in the error buffer, or Oopses in the case of pointers. This patch removes the advancement and fixes a number of bugs where crashes were observed as side effects of a regular error report. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney --- fs/reiserfs/prints.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/reiserfs/prints.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/prints.c @@ -157,19 +157,16 @@ static void sprintf_disk_child(char *buf dc_size(dc)); } -static char *is_there_reiserfs_struct(char *fmt, int *what, int *skip) +static char *is_there_reiserfs_struct(char *fmt, int *what) { char *k = fmt; - *skip = 0; - while ((k = strchr(k, '%')) != NULL) { if (k[1] == 'k' || k[1] == 'K' || k[1] == 'h' || k[1] == 't' || k[1] == 'z' || k[1] == 'b' || k[1] == 'y' || k[1] == 'a') { *what = k[1]; break; } - (*skip)++; k++; } return k; @@ -193,18 +190,15 @@ static void prepare_error_buf(const char char *fmt1 = fmt_buf; char *k; char *p = error_buf; - int i, j, what, skip; + int what; strcpy(fmt1, fmt); - while ((k = is_there_reiserfs_struct(fmt1, &what, &skip)) != NULL) { + while ((k = is_there_reiserfs_struct(fmt1, &what)) != NULL) { *k = 0; p += vsprintf(p, fmt1, args); - for (i = 0; i < skip; i++) - j = va_arg(args, int); - switch (what) { case 'k': sprintf_le_key(p, va_arg(args, struct reiserfs_key *)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/