vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
There are few printk formats that make sense only with two or more specifiers. Also some specifiers make sense only when a kernel feature is enabled. The handling of unknown specifiers is inconsistent and not helpful. Using WARN() looks like an overkill for this type of error. pr_warn() is not good either. It would by handled via printk_safe buffer and it might be hard to match it with the problematic string. A reasonable compromise seems to be writing the unknown format specifier into the original string with a question mark, for example (%pC?). It should be self-explaining enough. Note that it is in brackets to follow the (null) style. Note that it introduces a warning about that test_hashed() function is unused. It is going to be used again by a later patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417115350.20479-8-pmladek@suse.com To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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