RE: [PATCH 1/5] scsi: BusLogic: Fix missing `pr_cont' use

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Sat Apr 17 2021 - 10:01:41 EST


On Sat, 17 Apr 2021, David Laight wrote:

> > > In patch 2, vscnprintf should probably be used to make sure it's
> > > 0 terminated.
> >
> > Why? C99 has this[1]:
> >
> > "The vsnprintf function is equivalent to snprintf, with the variable
> > argument list replaced by arg, which shall have been initialized by the
> > va_start macro (and possibly subsequent va_arg calls)."
>
> vscnprintf() is normally the function you want (not vsnprintf())
> because the return value is the number of characters actually
> put into the buffer, not the number that would have been written
> had the buffer been long enough.

Good catch, thank you! I'll respin the series then. Thank you for the
background story too!

Maciej