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authorNicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>2016-05-26 23:19:54 +0200
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2016-05-31 16:42:00 +0800
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lib/mpi: mpi_read_from_buffer(): sanitize short buffer printk
The first two bytes of the input buffer encode its expected length and mpi_read_from_buffer() prints a console message if the given buffer is too short. However, there are some oddities with how this message is printed: - It is printed at the default loglevel. This is different from the one used in the case that the first two bytes' value is unsupportedly large, i.e. KERN_INFO. - The format specifier '%d' is used for unsigned ints. - It prints the values of nread and *ret_nread. This is redundant since the former is always the latter + 1. Clean this up as follows: - Use pr_info() rather than printk() with no loglevel. - Use the format specifiers '%u' in place if '%d'. - Do not print the redundant 'nread' but the more helpful 'nbytes' value. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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