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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
    On (04/03/18 13:52), Petr Mladek wrote:
    > On Tue 2018-04-03 10:12:37, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
    > > On (04/02/18 17:15), Andy Shevchenko wrote:
    > > > >
    > > > > Hmm, I have never seen the error code in this form.
    > > >
    > > > We have limited space to print it and error numbers currently can be up
    > > > to 0xfff (4095). So, I have no better idea how to squeeze them while
    > > > thinking that "(efault)" is much harder to parse in case of error
    > >
    > > 'efault' looks to me like a misspelled 'default', for some reason.
    >
    > I wonder if (-efault) would help a bit.

    Dunno. If the pointer is invalid and -EFAULTS then I guess we are not
    leaking anything critical and may be can just print it out. May be I'm
    wrong.

    -ss

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