On Wed 2021-02-17 15:50:00, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 01:15:43PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> wrote:
> > Under rare circumstances it may happen that a device node's name is NULL
> > (most likely kernel bug in some other place).
>
> What circumstances? How can I reproduce this? More information, please!
>
> > In such situations anything
> > but helpful, if the debug printout crashes, and nobody knows what actually
> > happened here.
> >
> > Therefore protect it by an explicit NULL check and print out an extra
> > warning.
>
> ...
>
> > + pr_warn("device_node without name. Kernel bug
> > ?\n");
>
> If it's not once, then it's possible to have log spammed with this, right?
>
> ...
>
> > + p = "<NULL>";
>
> We have different standard de facto for NULL pointers to be printed. Actually
> if you wish, you may gather them under one definition (maybe somewhere under
> printk) and export to everybody to use.
Please, use
if (check_pointer(&buf, end, p, spec))
return buf;
It will print "(null)" instead of the name. It should be enough
to inform the user this way. The extra pr_warn() does not help
much to localize the problem anyway. And it is better to avoid
recursion in this path.
Best Regards,
Petr
