linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] lib: vsprintf: add IPv4/v6 generic %p[Ii]S[pfs] format specifier

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Message-ID: <51CDB480.9070705@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:06:24 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] lib: vsprintf: add IPv4/v6 generic %p[Ii]S[pfs]
 format specifier

On 06/28/2013 05:53 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 06/28/2013 05:44 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 14:05 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>> In order to avoid making code that deals with printing both, IPv4 and
>>> IPv6 addresses, unnecessary complicated as for example ...
>>
>> Thanks Daniel, seems sensible.  Just trivial comments...
>
> Ok, thanks.
>
>> []
>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
>> []
>>
>> Should any other include other than net/addrconf be needed?

Ah, you mean net/addrconf.h, ok got it. Hm, well, I've compiled and tested it, no
warning or error on my side.

> I'm not sure I understand this question.
>
>>> +char *ip6_addr_string_sa(char *buf, char *end, const struct sockaddr_in6 *sa,
>>> +             struct printf_spec spec, const char *fmt)
>>> +{
>> []
>>> +    char fmt6[2] = { fmt[0], '6'};
>>
>> This looks odd to me.  why not use a bool compressed
>> flag and identify this before the isalpha loop and not
>> have fmt6 at all?
>
> Well, we have a bool called 'have_c' that identifies if 'c' was specified. To have
> the same behaviour as with %pI6, this is used to create a temporary fmt that we then
> can pass to ip6_string(). If you look at ip6_addr_string(), it's done the same way,
> and by that, we stay compatible in behaviour.
>
>>> +    u8 off = 0;
>>> +
>>> +    fmt++;
>>> +    while (isalpha(*++fmt)) {
>>> +        switch (*fmt) {
>>> +        case 'p':
>>> +            have_p = true;
>>> +            break;
>>> +        case 'f':
>>> +            have_f = true;
>>> +            break;
>>> +        case 's':
>>> +            have_s = true;
>>> +            break;
>>> +        case 'c':
>>> +            have_c = true;
>>> +            break;
>>> +        }
>>> +    }
>>
>>
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