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SubjectRe: [PATCH] input: elan: Fix wrong %p extension
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 02:51:13PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> There's no %px extension. From the context I think the intention was
> to dump the five bytes which were not as expected, and for that one
> should use %ph.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

Applied, thank you.

> ---
> I think the bug is mostly harmless, since the unrecognized extension
> is simply ignored (and skipped over), and the address of the 'values'
> array is simply printed as if by %5p. But since that is an address
> on the kernel stack, someone might think it is worse than I do.
>
> drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_smbus.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_smbus.c b/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_smbus.c
> index 359bf8583d54..2a89004f3c6e 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_smbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_smbus.c
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int elan_smbus_initialize(struct i2c_client *client)
>
> /* compare hello packet */
> if (memcmp(values, check, ETP_SMBUS_HELLOPACKET_LEN)) {
> - dev_err(&client->dev, "hello packet fail [%*px]\n",
> + dev_err(&client->dev, "hello packet fail [%*ph]\n",
> ETP_SMBUS_HELLOPACKET_LEN, values);
> return -ENXIO;
> }
> --
> 2.1.3
>

--
Dmitry


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