Re: [PATCH 1/2] qla2xxx: Rewrite logging functions to use %pV

From: Rolf Eike Beer
Date: Sun Jul 31 2011 - 04:04:29 EST


> + if (vha != NULL) {
> + const struct pci_dev *pdev = vha->hw->pdev;
> + /* <module-name> <pci-name> <msg-id>:<host> Message */
> + pr_warn("%s [%s]-%04x:%ld: %pV",
> + QL_MSGHDR, dev_name(&(pdev->dev)), id + ql_dbg_offset,
> + vha->host_no, &vaf);
> + } else {
> + pr_warn("%s [%s]-%04x: : %pV",
> + QL_MSGHDR, "0000:00:00.0", id + ql_dbg_offset, &vaf);
> }

If I would see 0000:00:00.0 in the logmessage I would become scared that
something is dereferencing cleared memory, use after free or whatever.
Only by looking into the code I could see that this code simply has no
idea which device it is on. Well, then don't print an address when you
don't have one instead of inventing one.

Eike
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