netdev - Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursive vsnprintf

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Message-ID: <1267914654.849.81.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
Date:	Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:30:54 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Andrew <nick@...k-andrew.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros,
 recursive vsnprintf

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 14:03 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Is that an ack, a nack or a get the hell out?
> It's mostly an Ack. I think the concept is great. I'd love to have some 
> way to limit recursion,

Maybe limit the %pV recursion depth to 1 with something like:
(in vsprintf.c: pointer() )

	case 'V': {
		char *rtn;
		static int rcount++;

		if (rcount > 1) {	/* Don't recurse more than once */
			rcount--;
			break;		/* Use print the pointer */
		}
		rtn = buf + vsnprintf(buf, end - buf,
				      ((struct va_format *)ptr)->fmt,
				      *(((struct va_format *)ptr)->va));
		rcount--;
		return rtn;
	}
	
> and I'd also love to see some actual numbers of 
> how deep the vsnprintf stack frame is, but I don't see how to do the 
> first, and I'm hoping the second isn't too horrible.

I believe it's the arguments, a long long, a couple of pointers,
and a struct printf_spec.  Not too bad.

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