Re: [PATCH v2] lib/test_printf.c: call wait_for_random_bytes() before plain %p tests

[Thierry Escande]

On 13/06/2018 13:22, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Thierry Escande
> <thierry.escande@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If the test_printf module is loaded before the crng is initialized, the
> > plain 'p' tests will fail because the printed address will not be hashed
> > and the buffer will contain "(ptrval)" instead.
> > Since we cannot wait for the crng to be initialized for an undefined
> > time, both plain 'p' tests now accept the string "(ptrval)" as a valid
> > result and print a warning message.
>
> There are two possibilities:
>   1. (ptrval) for 32-bit case
>   2. (____ptrval____) for 64-bit case.

From lib/vsprintf.c, ptr_to_id() puts "(ptrval)" into the buffer, then 
it gets left-padded with spaces by widen_string().

Regards,
Thierry