lib/vsprintf.c: expand field_width to 24 bits
authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:58:37 +0000 (16:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:17:26 +0000 (11:17 -0800)
commitd048419311ff16ba420f4b1bdf93a3d74057b53a
treef7c7ca69b73f37b7227f1723ad48a1ae71068b01
parent34fc8b9076254513e00607134792a1b67483d2cf
lib/vsprintf.c: expand field_width to 24 bits

Maurizio Lombardi reported a problem [1] with the %pb extension: It
doesn't work for sufficiently large bitmaps, since the size is stashed
in the field_width field of the struct printf_spec, which is currently
an s16.  Concretely, this manifested itself in
/sys/bus/pseudo/drivers/scsi_debug/map being empty, since the bitmap
printer got a size of 0, which is the 16 bit truncation of the actual
bitmap size.

We do want to keep struct printf_spec at 8 bytes so that it can cheaply
be passed by value.  The qualifier field is only used for internal
bookkeeping in format_decode, so we might as well use a local variable
for that.  This gives us an additional 8 bits, which we can then use for
the field width.

To stay in 8 bytes, we need to do a little rearranging and make the type
member a bitfield as well.  For consistency, change all the members to
bit fields.  gcc doesn't generate much worse code with these changes (in
fact, bloat-o-meter says we save 300 bytes - which I think is a little
surprising).

I didn't find a BUILD_BUG/compiletime_assertion/... which would work
outside function context, so for now I just open-coded it.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2034835

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid open-coded BUILD_BUG_ON]
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reported-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/vsprintf.c