Re: [PATCH v2] vsprintf: don't obfuscate NULL and error pointers

From: Ilya Dryomov
Date: Wed Apr 08 2020 - 11:53:07 EST


On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:06 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 04:38:25PM +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:31 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:45 AM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:23 PM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Petr,
> > > >
> > > > Bump, as I don't see this in linux-next or other public branches.
> > > > The discussion was split between several threads, revolving around
> > > > the vision for how lib/test_printf.c should be structured, but the
> > > > fix itself wasn't disputed.
> > > >
> > > > Could you please pick it up for 5.7-rc1? If you want to restructure
> > > > the test suite before adding any new test cases, v1 doesn't have them.
> > > > Other than the test cases, the only difference between v1 and v2 is
> > > > added reviews and acks.
> > >
> > > Petr has some obstacles that prevent him to pay attention on this and
> > > actually do anything right now for Linux kernel.
> > > If Rasmus, Sergey, you and maybe others will got consensus here, I
> > > think Andrew can take it thru his tree.
> >
> > Thanks for letting us know, Andy.
> >
> > Other than Petr, two people are listed as maintainers of vsprintf.c:
> > Sergey and Steve. Both of them were fine with v1 (no tests) and sent
> > their acks.
> >
> > Rasmus, you wanted to see some tests, so I posted v2. However Petr
> > wanted to restructure the test suite first, and it didn't seem like you
> > him agreed on what exactly that should look like. Which would you
> > prefer to be picked by Andrew, v1 or v2?
>
> I think it's question to maintainers. I'm a reviewer here.

This question was directed at Rasmus. Technically he is also a
reviewer, but I wanted to hear from him because he authored the test
suite in question.

Sergey and Steve (who are a listed as maintainers) were OK with v1
which doesn't touch lib/test_printf.c.

Thanks,

Ilya