linux-kernel - RE: Use of '%#02x' is almost always wrong

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Message-ID: <f41e216ed5074c55ad024e68a7dfaa3c@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 21:10:32 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Joe Perches' <joe@...ches.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Use of '%#02x' is almost always wrong

From: Joe Perches
> Sent: 10 October 2021 17:46
> 
> Perhaps too many developers do not know that using '%#<width>x'
> in printf output _includes_ the 0x prefix in the output width.
> 
> So %#02x already has the width taken by the 0x prefix and will
> always emit 3 or more output bytes.
> 
> sprintf(buf, "%#02x", 1) emits 0x1 (3 bytes of output)
> sprintf(buf, "%#02x", 255) emits 0xff (4 bytes of output)
> 
> So presumably all the uses of %#02x in the kernel are not outputting
> what is actually expected.  Perhaps all of these should use %#04x.

Doesn't help. The definition of "%#x" is completely broken.
Basically 0 doesn't get the "0x" prefix, so "%#04x" outputs
"0000" if the value is zero.
So the correct replacement is (probably) "0x%02x".

	David

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