Re: tip.git regression from "vsprintf: unify the format decodinglayer for its 3 users"

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Sat Mar 14 2009 - 07:09:16 EST


2009/3/14 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>:
> Change fef20d9c1380f04ba9492d6463148db07b413708, "vsprintf: unify the format
> decoding layer for its 3 users", causes a regression in xenbus which results
> in no devices getting attached to a new domain. Reverting
> fef20d9c1380f04ba9492d6463148db07b413708 and
> 39e874f8afbdb3745e2406ce4ecbde9ac4cbaa78 fixes the problem.
>
> I haven't identified what format string is being handled wrongly, so I don't
> know what the precise bug is. The most complex looking format in use seems
> to be %.*s; there's also "%s/%s", "%i" and "%lX".

Hi,

At least %.*s seems to be broken. How about this patch?

Vegard


diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index dc16743..be3001f 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static noinline char* put_dec(char *buf, unsigned long long num)

enum format_type {
FORMAT_TYPE_NONE, /* Just a string part */
- FORMAT_TYPE_WITDH,
+ FORMAT_TYPE_WIDTH,
FORMAT_TYPE_PRECISION,
FORMAT_TYPE_CHAR,
FORMAT_TYPE_STR,
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ static int format_decode(const char *fmt, struct printf_spec *spec)
const char *start = fmt;

/* we finished early by reading the field width */
- if (spec->type == FORMAT_TYPE_WITDH) {
+ if (spec->type == FORMAT_TYPE_WIDTH) {
if (spec->field_width < 0) {
spec->field_width = -spec->field_width;
spec->flags |= LEFT;
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ static int format_decode(const char *fmt, struct printf_spec *spec)
spec->field_width = skip_atoi(&fmt);
else if (*fmt == '*') {
/* it's the next argument */
- spec->type = FORMAT_TYPE_WITDH;
+ spec->type = FORMAT_TYPE_WIDTH;
return ++fmt - start;
}

@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ precision:
spec->precision = 0;
} else if (*fmt == '*') {
/* it's the next argument */
- spec->type = FORMAT_TYPE_WITDH;
+ spec->type = FORMAT_TYPE_PRECISION;
return ++fmt - start;
}
}
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
break;
}

- case FORMAT_TYPE_WITDH:
+ case FORMAT_TYPE_WIDTH:
spec.field_width = va_arg(args, int);
break;

@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ do { \
case FORMAT_TYPE_NONE:
break;

- case FORMAT_TYPE_WITDH:
+ case FORMAT_TYPE_WIDTH:
case FORMAT_TYPE_PRECISION:
save_arg(int);
break;
@@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf)
break;
}

- case FORMAT_TYPE_WITDH:
+ case FORMAT_TYPE_WIDTH:
spec.field_width = get_arg(int);
break;

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