On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 19:11 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> As old code to avoid so is inconsistent, let's unify it within a
> single
> macro.
> 
>  
> +#define IS_BAD_PTR(x) ((unsigned long)(x) >= (unsigned long)-
> PAGE_SIZE \
> +                             || (unsigned long)(x) < PAGE_SIZE)

Oh, no.

First of all, why it's a macro?

Next, what prevents us to do it in place using IS_ERR() instead? (Btw, I
have a patch for that, not published yet)

>  #define BAD_PTR_STRING(x) (!(x) ? "(null)" : IS_ERR(x) ? "(err)" :
> "(invalid)")
>  
>  /**
> @@ -589,7 +591,7 @@ char *string(char *buf, char *end, const char *s,
> struct printf_spec spec)
>       int len = 0;
>       size_t lim = spec.precision;
>  
> -     if ((unsigned long)s < PAGE_SIZE)
> +     if (IS_BAD_PTR(s))
>               s = BAD_PTR_STRING(s);

I don't think it's a good idea to change current behaviour.

> @@ -1583,7 +1585,7 @@ char *device_node_string(char *buf, char *end,
> struct device_node *dn,
>       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF))
>               return string(buf, end, "(!OF)", spec);
>  
> -     if ((unsigned long)dn < PAGE_SIZE)
> +     if (IS_BAD_PTR(dn))
>               return string(buf, end, BAD_PTR_STRING(dn), spec);

This makes no sense. Explained in comment against patch 1.

>  
>       /* simple case without anything any more format specifiers */
> @@ -1851,7 +1853,7 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char
> *end, void *ptr,
>  {
>       const int default_width = 2 * sizeof(void *);
>  
> -     if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K' && *fmt != 'x') {
> +     if (IS_BAD_PTR(ptr) && *fmt != 'K' && *fmt != 'x') {
>               /*
>                * Print (null)/etc with the same width as a pointer
> so it
>                * makes tabular output look nice.
> 

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

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