Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: make '%pD' print the full path of file

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 01:50:09PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> Previously, the specifier '%pD' is for printing dentry name of struct
> file. It may not be perfect (by default it only prints one component.)
> 
> As suggested by Linus [1]:
> > A dentry has a parent, but at the same time, a dentry really does
> > inherently have "one name" (and given just the dentry pointers, you
> > can't show mount-related parenthood, so in many ways the "show just
> > one name" makes sense for "%pd" in ways it doesn't necessarily for
> > "%pD"). But while a dentry arguably has that "one primary component",
> > a _file_ is certainly not exclusively about that last component.
> 
> Hence change the behavior of '%pD' to print the full path of that file.
> 
> If someone invokes snprintf() with small but positive space,
> prepend_name_with_len() moves or truncates the string partially. More
> than that, kasprintf() will pass NULL @buf and @end as the parameters,
> and @end - @buf can be negative in some case. Hence make it return at
> the very beginning with false in these cases.
> 
> Precision is never going to be used with %p (or any of its kernel
> extensions) if -Wformat is turned on.

...

> +	char *p;
> +	const struct path *path;
> +	int prepend_len, widen_len, dpath_len;

Reversed xmas tree order?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko