linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] HID: fix error message in hid_open

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:19:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
cc:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] HID: fix error message in hid_open_report()

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Michał Mirosław wrote:

> On HID report descriptor parsing error the code displays bogus
> pointer instead of error offset (subtracts start=NULL from end).
> Make the message more useful by displaying correct error offset
> and include total buffer size for reference.
> 
> This was carried over from ancient times - "Fixed" commit just
> promoted the message from DEBUG to ERROR.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 8c3d52fc393b ("HID: make parser more verbose about parsing errors by default")
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
> 
> ---
> v2: fixed printf() warning spotted by Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>

Applied, thank you.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs