History log of /linux-master/lib/string_helpers.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# f0b7f8ad 29-Feb-2024 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()

The new flags parameter allows controlling
- Whether or not the units suffix is separated by a space, for
compatibility with sort -h
- Whether or not to append a B suffix - we're not always printing
bytes.

Co-developed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240229205345.93902-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 3d965b33 07-Apr-2023 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

fortify: Improve buffer overflow reporting

Improve the reporting of buffer overflows under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE to
help accelerate debugging efforts. The calculations are all just sitting
in registers anyway, so pass them along to the function to be reported.

For example, before:

detected buffer overflow in memcpy

and after:

memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 4096 byte read of buffer size 1

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407192717.636137-10-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 4ce615e7 07-Apr-2023 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

fortify: Provide KUnit counters for failure testing

The standard C string APIs were not designed to have a failure mode;
they were expected to always succeed without memory safety issues.
Normally, CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE will use fortify_panic() to stop
processing, as truncating a read or write may provide an even worse
system state. However, this creates a problem for testing under things
like KUnit, which needs a way to survive failures.

When building with CONFIG_KUNIT, provide a failure path for all users
of fortify_panic, and track whether the failure was a read overflow or
a write overflow, for KUnit tests to examine. Inspired by similar logic
in the slab tests.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 475ddf1f 07-Apr-2023 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

fortify: Split reporting and avoid passing string pointer

In preparation for KUnit testing and further improvements in fortify
failure reporting, split out the report and encode the function and access
failure (read or write overflow) into a single u8 argument. This mainly
ends up saving a tiny bit of space in the data segment. For a defconfig
with FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled:

$ size gcc/vmlinux.before gcc/vmlinux.after
text data bss dec hex filename
26132309 9760658 2195460 38088427 2452eeb gcc/vmlinux.before
26132386 9748382 2195460 38076228 244ff44 gcc/vmlinux.after

Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# f478898e 02-Feb-2024 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

string: Redefine strscpy_pad() as a macro

In preparation for making strscpy_pad()'s 3rd argument optional, redefine
it as a macro. This also has the benefit of allowing greater FORITFY
introspection, as it couldn't see into the strscpy() nor the memset()
within strscpy_pad().

Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 83feeb19 25-Apr-2022 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>

lib/string_helpers: string_get_size() now returns characters wrote

printbuf now needs to know the number of characters that would have been
written if the buffer was too small, like snprintf(); this changes
string_get_size() to return the the return value of snprintf().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>


# 045ad464 04-Aug-2023 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: Add kstrdup_and_replace() helper

Duplicate a NULL-terminated string and replace all occurrences of
the old character with a new one. In other words, provide functionality
of kstrdup() + strreplace().

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230804143910.15504-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>


# d01a77af 05-Jun-2023 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: Change returned value of the strreplace()

It's more useful to return the pointer to the string itself
with strreplace(), so it may be used like

attr->name = strreplace(name, '/', '_');

While at it, amend the kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605170553.7835-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com


# f0b93323 03-Sep-2022 Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: Introduce parse_int_array_user()

Add new helper function to allow for splitting specified user string
into a sequence of integers. Internally it makes use of get_options() so
the returned sequence contains the integers extracted plus an additional
element that begins the sequence and specifies the integers count.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220904102840.862395-2-cezary.rojewski@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>


# cd290a98 12-May-2022 Puyou Lu <puyou.lu@gmail.com>

lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list

Add allocated strarray to device's resource list. This is a must to
automatically release strarray when the device disappears.

Without this fix we have a memory leak in the few drivers which use
devm_kasprintf_strarray().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506044409.30066-1-puyou.lu@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506073623.2679-1-puyou.lu@gmail.com
Fixes: acdb89b6c87a ("lib/string_helpers: Introduce managed variant of kasprintf_strarray()")
Signed-off-by: Puyou Lu <puyou.lu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# f68f2ff9 21-Apr-2021 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memcpy() at compile-time

memcpy() is dead; long live memcpy()

tl;dr: In order to eliminate a large class of common buffer overflow
flaws that continue to persist in the kernel, have memcpy() (under
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE) perform bounds checking of the destination struct
member when they have a known size. This would have caught all of the
memcpy()-related buffer write overflow flaws identified in at least the
last three years.

Background and analysis:

While stack-based buffer overflow flaws are largely mitigated by stack
canaries (and similar) features, heap-based buffer overflow flaws continue
to regularly appear in the kernel. Many classes of heap buffer overflows
are mitigated by FORTIFY_SOURCE when using the strcpy() family of
functions, but a significant number remain exposed through the memcpy()
family of functions.

At its core, FORTIFY_SOURCE uses the compiler's __builtin_object_size()
internal[0] to determine the available size at a target address based on
the compile-time known structure layout details. It operates in two
modes: outer bounds (0) and inner bounds (1). In mode 0, the size of the
enclosing structure is used. In mode 1, the size of the specific field
is used. For example:

struct object {
u16 scalar1; /* 2 bytes */
char array[6]; /* 6 bytes */
u64 scalar2; /* 8 bytes */
u32 scalar3; /* 4 bytes */
u32 scalar4; /* 4 bytes */
} instance;

__builtin_object_size(instance.array, 0) == 22, since the remaining size
of the enclosing structure starting from "array" is 22 bytes (6 + 8 +
4 + 4).

__builtin_object_size(instance.array, 1) == 6, since the remaining size
of the specific field "array" is 6 bytes.

The initial implementation of FORTIFY_SOURCE used mode 0 because there
were many cases of both strcpy() and memcpy() functions being used to
write (or read) across multiple fields in a structure. For example,
it would catch this, which is writing 2 bytes beyond the end of
"instance":

memcpy(&instance.array, data, 25);

While this didn't protect against overwriting adjacent fields in a given
structure, it would at least stop overflows from reaching beyond the
end of the structure into neighboring memory, and provided a meaningful
mitigation of a subset of buffer overflow flaws. However, many desirable
targets remain within the enclosing structure (for example function
pointers).

As it happened, there were very few cases of strcpy() family functions
intentionally writing beyond the end of a string buffer. Once all known
cases were removed from the kernel, the strcpy() family was tightened[1]
to use mode 1, providing greater mitigation coverage.

What remains is switching memcpy() to mode 1 as well, but making the
switch is much more difficult because of how frustrating it can be to
find existing "normal" uses of memcpy() that expect to write (or read)
across multiple fields. The root cause of the problem is that the C
language lacks a common pattern to indicate the intent of an author's
use of memcpy(), and is further complicated by the available compile-time
and run-time mitigation behaviors.

The FORTIFY_SOURCE mitigation comes in two halves: the compile-time half,
when both the buffer size _and_ the length of the copy is known, and the
run-time half, when only the buffer size is known. If neither size is
known, there is no bounds checking possible. At compile-time when the
compiler sees that a length will always exceed a known buffer size,
a warning can be deterministically emitted. For the run-time half,
the length is tested against the known size of the buffer, and the
overflowing operation is detected. (The performance overhead for these
tests is virtually zero.)

It is relatively easy to find compile-time false-positives since a warning
is always generated. Fixing the false positives, however, can be very
time-consuming as there are hundreds of instances. While it's possible
some over-read conditions could lead to kernel memory exposures, the bulk
of the risk comes from the run-time flaws where the length of a write
may end up being attacker-controlled and lead to an overflow.

Many of the compile-time false-positives take a form similar to this:

memcpy(&instance.scalar2, data, sizeof(instance.scalar2) +
sizeof(instance.scalar3));

and the run-time ones are similar, but lack a constant expression for the
size of the copy:

memcpy(instance.array, data, length);

The former is meant to cover multiple fields (though its style has been
frowned upon more recently), but has been technically legal. Both lack
any expressivity in the C language about the author's _intent_ in a way
that a compiler can check when the length isn't known at compile time.
A comment doesn't work well because what's needed is something a compiler
can directly reason about. Is a given memcpy() call expected to overflow
into neighbors? Is it not? By using the new struct_group() macro, this
intent can be much more easily encoded.

It is not as easy to find the run-time false-positives since the code path
to exercise a seemingly out-of-bounds condition that is actually expected
may not be trivially reachable. Tightening the restrictions to block an
operation for a false positive will either potentially create a greater
flaw (if a copy is truncated by the mitigation), or destabilize the kernel
(e.g. with a BUG()), making things completely useless for the end user.

As a result, tightening the memcpy() restriction (when there is a
reasonable level of uncertainty of the number of false positives), needs
to first WARN() with no truncation. (Though any sufficiently paranoid
end-user can always opt to set the panic_on_warn=1 sysctl.) Once enough
development time has passed, the mitigation can be further intensified.
(Note that this patch is only the compile-time checking step, which is
a prerequisite to doing run-time checking, which will come in future
patches.)

Given the potential frustrations of weeding out all the false positives
when tightening the run-time checks, it is reasonable to wonder if these
changes would actually add meaningful protection. Looking at just the
last three years, there are 23 identified flaws with a CVE that mention
"buffer overflow", and 11 are memcpy()-related buffer overflows.

(For the remaining 12: 7 are array index overflows that would be
mitigated by systems built with CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y: CVE-2019-0145,
CVE-2019-14835, CVE-2019-14896, CVE-2019-14897, CVE-2019-14901,
CVE-2019-17666, CVE-2021-28952. 2 are miscalculated allocation
sizes which could be mitigated with memory tagging: CVE-2019-16746,
CVE-2019-2181. 1 is an iovec buffer bug maybe mitigated by memory tagging:
CVE-2020-10742. 1 is a type confusion bug mitigated by stack canaries:
CVE-2020-10942. 1 is a string handling logic bug with no mitigation I'm
aware of: CVE-2021-28972.)

At my last count on an x86_64 allmodconfig build, there are 35,294
calls to memcpy(). With callers instrumented to report all places
where the buffer size is known but the length remains unknown (i.e. a
run-time bounds check is added), we can count how many new run-time
bounds checks are added when the destination and source arguments of
memcpy() are changed to use "mode 1" bounds checking: 1,276. This means
for the future run-time checking, there is a worst-case upper bounds
of 3.6% false positives to fix. In addition, there were around 150 new
compile-time warnings to evaluate and fix (which have now been fixed).

With this instrumentation it's also possible to compare the places where
the known 11 memcpy() flaw overflows manifested against the resulting
list of potential new run-time bounds checks, as a measure of potential
efficacy of the tightened mitigation. Much to my surprise, horror, and
delight, all 11 flaws would have been detected by the newly added run-time
bounds checks, making this a distinctly clear mitigation improvement: 100%
coverage for known memcpy() flaws, with a possible 2 orders of magnitude
gain in coverage over existing but undiscovered run-time dynamic length
flaws (i.e. 1265 newly covered sites in addition to the 11 known), against
only <4% of all memcpy() callers maybe gaining a false positive run-time
check, with only about 150 new compile-time instances needing evaluation.

Specifically these would have been mitigated:
CVE-2020-24490 https://git.kernel.org/linus/a2ec905d1e160a33b2e210e45ad30445ef26ce0e
CVE-2020-12654 https://git.kernel.org/linus/3a9b153c5591548612c3955c9600a98150c81875
CVE-2020-12653 https://git.kernel.org/linus/b70261a288ea4d2f4ac7cd04be08a9f0f2de4f4d
CVE-2019-14895 https://git.kernel.org/linus/3d94a4a8373bf5f45cf5f939e88b8354dbf2311b
CVE-2019-14816 https://git.kernel.org/linus/7caac62ed598a196d6ddf8d9c121e12e082cac3a
CVE-2019-14815 https://git.kernel.org/linus/7caac62ed598a196d6ddf8d9c121e12e082cac3a
CVE-2019-14814 https://git.kernel.org/linus/7caac62ed598a196d6ddf8d9c121e12e082cac3a
CVE-2019-10126 https://git.kernel.org/linus/69ae4f6aac1578575126319d3f55550e7e440449
CVE-2019-9500 https://git.kernel.org/linus/1b5e2423164b3670e8bc9174e4762d297990deff
no-CVE-yet https://git.kernel.org/linus/130f634da1af649205f4a3dd86cbe5c126b57914
no-CVE-yet https://git.kernel.org/linus/d10a87a3535cce2b890897914f5d0d83df669c63

To accelerate the review of potential run-time false positives, it's
also worth noting that it is possible to partially automate checking
by examining the memcpy() buffer argument to check for the destination
struct member having a neighboring array member. It is reasonable to
expect that the vast majority of run-time false positives would look like
the already evaluated and fixed compile-time false positives, where the
most common pattern is neighboring arrays. (And, FWIW, many of the
compile-time fixes were actual bugs, so it is reasonable to assume we'll
have similar cases of actual bugs getting fixed for run-time checks.)

Implementation:

Tighten the memcpy() destination buffer size checking to use the actual
("mode 1") target buffer size as the bounds check instead of their
enclosing structure's ("mode 0") size. Use a common inline for memcpy()
(and memmove() in a following patch), since all the tests are the
same. All new cross-field memcpy() uses must use the struct_group() macro
or similar to target a specific range of fields, so that FORTIFY_SOURCE
can reason about the size and safety of the copy.

For now, cross-member "mode 1" _read_ detection at compile-time will be
limited to W=1 builds, since it is, unfortunately, very common. As the
priority is solving write overflows, read overflows will be part of a
future phase (and can be fixed in parallel, for anyone wanting to look
at W=1 build output).

For run-time, the "mode 0" size checking and mitigation is left unchanged,
with "mode 1" to be added in stages. In this patch, no new run-time
checks are added. Future patches will first bounds-check writes,
and only perform a WARN() for now. This way any missed run-time false
positives can be flushed out over the coming several development cycles,
but system builders who have tested their workloads to be WARN()-free
can enable the panic_on_warn=1 sysctl to immediately gain a mitigation
against this class of buffer overflows. Once that is under way, run-time
bounds-checking of reads can be similarly enabled.

Related classes of flaws that will remain unmitigated:

- memcpy() with flexible array structures, as the compiler does not
currently have visibility into the size of the trailing flexible
array. These can be fixed in the future by refactoring such cases
to use a new set of flexible array structure helpers to perform the
common serialization/deserialization code patterns doing allocation
and/or copying.

- memcpy() with raw pointers (e.g. void *, char *, etc), or otherwise
having their buffer size unknown at compile time, have no good
mitigation beyond memory tagging (and even that would only protect
against inter-object overflow, not intra-object neighboring field
overflows), or refactoring. Some kind of "fat pointer" solution is
likely needed to gain proper size-of-buffer awareness. (e.g. see
struct membuf)

- type confusion where a higher level type's allocation size does
not match the resulting cast type eventually passed to a deeper
memcpy() call where the compiler cannot see the true type. In
theory, greater static analysis could catch these, and the use
of -Warray-bounds will help find some of these.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Object-Size-Checking.html
[1] https://git.kernel.org/linus/6a39e62abbafd1d58d1722f40c7d26ef379c6a2f

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# acdb89b6 05-Nov-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: Introduce managed variant of kasprintf_strarray()

Some of the users want to have easy way to allocate array of strings
that will be automatically cleaned when associated device is gone.

Introduce managed variant of kasprintf_strarray() for such use cases.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>


# 418e0a35 05-Nov-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: Introduce kasprintf_strarray()

We have a few users already that basically want to have array of
sequential strings to be allocated and filled.

Provide a helper for them (basically adjusted version from gpio-mockup.c).

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>


# 5c4e0a21 02-Nov-2021 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

string: uninline memcpy_and_pad

When building m68k:allmodconfig, recent versions of gcc generate the
following error if the length of UTS_RELEASE is less than 8 bytes.

In function 'memcpy_and_pad',
inlined from 'nvmet_execute_disc_identify' at
drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c:268:2: arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error:
'__builtin_memcpy' reading 8 bytes from a region of size 7

Discussions around the problem suggest that this only happens if an
architecture does not provide strlen(), if -ffreestanding is provided as
compiler option, and if CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=n. All of this is the case
for m68k. The exact reasons are unknown, but seem to be related to the
ability of the compiler to evaluate the return value of strlen() and
the resulting execution flow in memcpy_and_pad(). It would be possible
to work around the problem by using sizeof(UTS_RELEASE) instead of
strlen(UTS_RELEASE), but that would only postpone the problem until the
function is called in a similar way. Uninline memcpy_and_pad() instead
to solve the problem for good.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c430f600 14-Apr-2021 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

fortify: Move remaining fortify helpers into fortify-string.h

When commit a28a6e860c6c ("string.h: move fortified functions definitions
in a dedicated header.") moved the fortify-specific code, some helpers
were left behind. Move the remaining fortify-specific helpers into
fortify-string.h so they're together where they're used. This requires
that any FORTIFY helper function prototypes be conditionally built to
avoid "no prototype" warnings. Additionally removes unused helpers.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Francis Laniel <laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# cfecea6e 18-Jun-2021 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

lib/string: Move helper functions out of string.c

The core functions of string.c are those that may be implemented by
per-architecture functions, or overloaded by FORTIFY_SOURCE. As a
result, it needs to be built with __NO_FORTIFY. Without this, macros
will collide with function declarations. This was accidentally working
due to -ffreestanding (on some architectures). Make this deterministic
by explicitly setting __NO_FORTIFY and move all the helper functions
into string_helpers.c so that they gain the fortification coverage they
had been missing.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 91027d0a 15-Jun-2021 Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>

string_helpers: Escape double quotes in escape_special

From an abstract point of view, escape_special's counterpart,
unescape_special, already handles the unescaping of blackslashed double
quote sequences.

As a more practical example, printk indexing is an example case where
this is already practically useful. Compare an example with
`ESCAPE_SPECIAL | ESCAPE_SPACE`, with quotes not escaped:

[root@ktst ~]# grep drivers/pci/pci-stub.c:69 /sys/kernel/debug/printk/index/vmlinux
<4> drivers/pci/pci-stub.c:69 pci_stub_init "pci-stub: invalid ID string "%s"\n"

...and the same after this patch:

[root@ktst ~]# grep drivers/pci/pci-stub.c:69 /sys/kernel/debug/printk/index/vmlinux
<4> drivers/pci/pci-stub.c:69 pci_stub_init "pci-stub: invalid ID string \"%s\"\n"

One can of course, alternatively, use ESCAPE_APPEND with a quote in
@only, but without this patch quotes are coerced into hex or octal which
can hurt readability quite significantly.

I've checked uses of ESCAPE_SPECIAL and %pE across the codebase, and I'm
pretty confident that this shouldn't affect any stable interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/af144c5b75e41ce417386253ba2694456bc04118.1623775748.git.chris@chrisdown.name


# cc72181a 30-Jun-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

seq_file: drop unused *_escape_mem_ascii()

There are no more users of the seq_escape_mem_ascii() followed by
string_escape_mem_ascii().

Remove them for good.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210504180819.73127-16-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# aec0d096 30-Jun-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: allow to append additional characters to be escaped

Introduce a new flag to append additional characters, passed in 'only'
parameter, to be escaped if they fall in the corresponding class.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210504180819.73127-7-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0362c27f 30-Jun-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: introduce ESCAPE_NAP to escape non-ASCII and non-printable

Some users may want to have an ASCII based filter for printable only
characters, provided by conjunction of isascii() and isprint() functions.

Here is the addition of a such.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210504180819.73127-6-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a0809783 30-Jun-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: introduce ESCAPE_NA for escaping non-ASCII

Some users may want to have an ASCII based filter, provided by isascii()
function. Here is the addition of a such.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210504180819.73127-5-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 7e5969ae 30-Jun-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: drop indentation level in string_escape_mem()

The only one conditional is left on the upper level, move the rest to the
same level and drop indentation level. No functional changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210504180819.73127-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 62519b88 30-Jun-2021 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: move ESCAPE_NP check inside 'else' branch in a loop

Refactor code to have better readability by moving ESCAPE_NP handling
inside 'else' branch in the loop.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210504180819.73127-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0fd16012 28-Sep-2020 Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>

lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()

There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>


# b4658cdd 16-Jul-2019 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

lib/string_helpers: fix some kerneldoc warnings

Due to some sad limitations in how kerneldoc comments are parsed, the
documentation in lib/string_helpers.c generates these warnings:

lib/string_helpers.c:236: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
lib/string_helpers.c:241: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
lib/string_helpers.c:446: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
lib/string_helpers.c:451: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
lib/string_helpers.c:474: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.

Rework the comments to obtain something like the desired result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190607110952.409011ba@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ea053e16 18-Jun-2019 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

nfsd: escape high characters in binary data

I'm exposing some information about NFS clients in pseudofiles. I
expect to eventually have simple tools to help read those pseudofiles.

But it's also helpful if the raw files are human-readable to the extent
possible. It aids debugging and makes them usable on systems that don't
have the latest nfs-utils.

A minor challenge there is opaque client-generated protocol objects like
state owners and client identifiers. Some clients generate those to
include handy information in plain ascii. But they may also include
arbitrary byte sequences.

I think the simplest approach is to limit to isprint(c) && isascii(c)
and escape everything else.

That means you can just cat the file and get something that looks OK.
Also, I'm trying to keep these files legal YAML, which requires them to
UTF-8, and this is a simple way to guarantee that.

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>


# 457c8996 19-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

- Have no license information of any form

- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 0ee931c4 13-Sep-2017 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag

GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's
primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is
short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close
together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds
like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the
highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the
context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is
no good answer for those questions.

The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of
the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So
this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits.

I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag
with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from
other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to
use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just
motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning.

I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially
those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from
confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and
replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that
SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and
so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention.

I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm
allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and
only then add users with proper justification.

This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it
turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It
seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not
all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that
opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between
developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a
semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag
and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term
allocations.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 21985319 20-Apr-2016 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable_file

Allocate a NULL-terminated file path with special characters escaped,
safe for logging.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>


# 0d044328 20-Apr-2016 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable_cmdline

Provide an escaped (but readable: no inter-argument NULLs) commandline
safe for logging.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>


# b53f27e4 20-Apr-2016 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable

Handle allocating and escaping a string safe for logging.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>


# 564b026f 20-Jan-2016 James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>

string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs

It was noticed that we lose precision in the final calculation for some
inputs. The most egregious example is size=3000 blk_size=1900 in units
of 10 should yield 5.70 MB but in fact yields 3.00 MB (oops).

This is because the current algorithm doesn't correctly account for
all the remainders in the logarithms. Fix this by doing a correct
calculation in the remainders based on napier's algorithm.

Additionally, now we have the correct result, we have to account for
arithmetic rounding because we're printing 3 digits of precision. This
means that if the fourth digit is five or greater, we have to round up,
so add a section to ensure correct rounding. Finally account for all
possible inputs correctly, including zero for block size.

Fixes: b9f28d863594c429e1df35a0474d2663ca28b307
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [delay until after 4.4 release]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 62bef58a 17-Sep-2015 Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

lib/string_helpers.c: fix infinite loop in string_get_size()

Some string_get_size() calls (e.g.:
string_get_size(1, 512, STRING_UNITS_10, ..., ...)
string_get_size(15, 64, STRING_UNITS_10, ..., ...)
) result in an infinite loop. The problem is that if size is equal to
divisor[units]/blk_size and is smaller than divisor[units] we'll end
up with size == 0 when we start doing sf_cap calculations:

For string_get_size(1, 512, STRING_UNITS_10, ..., ...) case:
...
remainder = do_div(size, divisor[units]); -> size is 0, remainder is 1
remainder *= blk_size; -> remainder is 512
...
size *= blk_size; -> size is still 0
size += remainder / divisor[units]; -> size is still 0

The caller causing the issue is sd_read_capacity(), the problem was
noticed on Hyper-V, such weird size was reported by host when scanning
collides with device removal. This is probably a separate issue worth
fixing, this patch is intended to prevent the library routine from
infinite looping.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b40bdb7f 09-Sep-2015 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

lib/string_helpers: rename "esc" arg to "only"

To further clarify the purpose of the "esc" argument, rename it to "only"
to reflect that it is a limit, not a list of additional characters to
escape.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d89a3f73 09-Sep-2015 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

lib/string_helpers: clarify esc arg in string_escape_mem

The esc argument is used to reduce which characters will be escaped. For
example, using " " with ESCAPE_SPACE will not produce any escaped spaces.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 41416f23 15-Apr-2015 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

lib/string_helpers.c: change semantics of string_escape_mem

The current semantics of string_escape_mem are inadequate for one of its
current users, vsnprintf(). If that is to honour its contract, it must
know how much space would be needed for the entire escaped buffer, and
string_escape_mem provides no way of obtaining that (short of allocating a
large enough buffer (~4 times input string) to let it play with, and
that's definitely a big no-no inside vsnprintf).

So change the semantics for string_escape_mem to be more snprintf-like:
Return the size of the output that would be generated if the destination
buffer was big enough, but of course still only write to the part of dst
it is allowed to, and (contrary to snprintf) don't do '\0'-termination.
It is then up to the caller to detect whether output was truncated and to
append a '\0' if desired. Also, we must output partial escape sequences,
otherwise a call such as snprintf(buf, 3, "%1pE", "\123") would cause
printf to write a \0 to buf[2] but leaving buf[0] and buf[1] with whatever
they previously contained.

This also fixes a bug in the escaped_string() helper function, which used
to unconditionally pass a length of "end-buf" to string_escape_mem();
since the latter doesn't check osz for being insanely large, it would
happily write to dst. For example, kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "something and
then %pE", ...); is an easy way to trigger an oops.

In test-string_helpers.c, the -ENOMEM test is replaced with testing for
getting the expected return value even if the buffer is too small. We
also ensure that nothing is written (by relying on a NULL pointer deref)
if the output size is 0 by passing NULL - this has to work for
kasprintf("%pE") to work.

In net/sunrpc/cache.c, I think qword_add still has the same semantics.
Someone should definitely double-check this.

In fs/proc/array.c, I made the minimum possible change, but longer-term it
should stop poking around in seq_file internals.

[andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: simplify qword_add]
[andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: add missed curly braces]
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3aeddc7d 15-Apr-2015 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

lib/string_helpers.c: refactor string_escape_mem

When printf is given the format specifier %pE, it needs a way of obtaining
the total output size that would be generated if the buffer was large
enough, and string_escape_mem doesn't easily provide that. This is a
refactorization of string_escape_mem in preparation of changing its
external API to provide that information.

The somewhat ugly early returns and subsequent seemingly redundant
conditionals are to make the following patch touch as little as possible
in string_helpers.c while still preserving the current behaviour of never
outputting partial escape sequences. That behaviour must also change for
%pE to work as one expects from every other printf specifier.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b9f28d86 05-Mar-2015 James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>

sd, mmc, virtio_blk, string_helpers: fix block size units

The current string_get_size() overflows when the device size goes over
2^64 bytes because the string helper routine computes the suffix from
the size in bytes. However, the entirety of Linux thinks in terms of
blocks, not bytes, so this will artificially induce an overflow on very
large devices. Fix this by making the function string_get_size() take
blocks and the block size instead of bytes. This should allow us to
keep working until the current SCSI standard overflows.

Also fix virtio_blk and mmc (both of which were also artificially
multiplying by the block size to pass a byte side to string_get_size()).

The mathematics of this is pretty simple: we're taking a product of
size in blocks (S) and block size (B) and trying to re-express this in
exponential form: S*B = R*N^E (where N, the exponent is either 1000 or
1024) and R < N. Mathematically, S = RS*N^ES and B=RB*N^EB, so if RS*RB
< N it's easy to see that S*B = RS*RB*N^(ES+EB). However, if RS*BS > N,
we can see that this can be re-expressed as RS*BS = R*N (where R =
RS*BS/N < N) so the whole exponent becomes R*N^(ES+EB+1)

[jejb: fix incorrect 32 bit do_div spotted by kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>


# d1214c65 12-Feb-2015 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

libstring_helpers.c:string_get_size(): return void

string_get_size() was documented to return an error, but in fact always
returned 0. Since the output always fits in 9 bytes, just document that
and let callers do what they do now: pass a small stack buffer and ignore
the return value.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 84b9fbed 12-Feb-2015 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

lib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): use 32 bit arithmetic when possible

The remainder from do_div is always a u32, and after size has been reduced
to be below 1000 (or 1024), it certainly fits in u32. So both remainder
and sf_cap can be made u32s, the format specifiers can be simplified (%lld
wasn't the right thing to use for _unsigned_ long long anyway), and we can
replace a do_div with an ordinary 32/32 bit division.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 7eed8fde 12-Feb-2015 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

lib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): remove redundant prefixes

While commit 3c9f3681d0b4 ("[SCSI] lib: add generic helper to print
sizes rounded to the correct SI range") says that Z and Y are included
in preparation for 128 bit computers, they just waste .text currently.
If and when we get u128, string_get_size needs updating anyway (and ISO
needs to come up with four more prefixes).

Also there's no need to include and test for the NULL sentinel; once we
reach "E" size is at most 18. [The test is also wrong; it should be
units_str[units][i+1]; if we've reached NULL we're already doomed.]

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c8250381 13-Oct-2014 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib / string_helpers: introduce string_escape_mem()

This is almost the opposite function to string_unescape(). Nevertheless
it handles \0 and could be used for any byte buffer.

The documentation is supplied together with the function prototype.

The test cases covers most of the scenarios and would be expanded later
on.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid 1k stack consumption]
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d295634e 13-Oct-2014 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib / string_helpers: move documentation to c-file

The introduced function string_escape_mem() is a kind of opposite to
string_unescape. We have several users of such functionality each of
them created custom implementation. The series contains clean up of
test suite, adding new call, and switching few users to use it via %*pE
specifier.

Test suite covers all of existing and most of potential use cases.

This patch (of 11):

The documentation of API belongs to c-file. This patch moves it
accordingly.

There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 142cda5d 06-Aug-2014 Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>

lib/string_helpers.c: constify static arrays

Complement commit 68aecfb97978 ("lib/string_helpers.c: make arrays
static") by making the arrays const -- not only pointing to const
strings. This moves them out of the data section to the r/o data
section:

text data bss dec hex filename
1150 176 0 1326 52e lib/string_helpers.old.o
1326 0 0 1326 52e lib/string_helpers.new.o

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 16c7fa05 30-Apr-2013 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/string_helpers: introduce generic string_unescape

There are several places in kernel where modules unescapes input to convert
C-Style Escape Sequences into byte codes.

The patch provides generic implementation of such approach. Test cases are
also included into the patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export get_random_int() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 68aecfb9 29-May-2012 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

lib/string_helpers.c: make arrays static

Moving these arrays into static storage shrinks the kernel a bit:

text data bss dec hex filename
723 112 64 899 383 lib/string_helpers.o
516 272 64 852 354 lib/string_helpers.o

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8bc3bcc9 16-Nov-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible

For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>


# a8659597 14-Oct-2008 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

[SCSI] lib: string_get_size(): don't hang on zero; no decimals on exact

We would hang forever when passing a zero to string_get_size().
Furthermore, string_get_size() would produce decimals on a value small
enough to be exact. Finally, a few formatting issues are inconsistent
with standard SI style guidelines.

- If the value is less than the divisor, skip the entire rounding
step. This prints out all small values including zero as integers,
without decimals.
- Add a space between the value and the symbol for the unit,
consistent with standard SI practice.
- Lower case k in kB since we are talking about powers of 10.
- Finally, change "int" to "unsigned int" in one place to shut up a
gcc warning when compiling the code out-of-kernel for testing.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>


# 3c9f3681 31-Aug-2008 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

[SCSI] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range

This patch adds the ability to print sizes in either units of 10^3 (SI)
or 2^10 (Binary) units. It rounds up to three significant figures and
can be used for either memory or storage capacities.

Oh, and I'm fully aware that 64 bits is only 16EiB ... the Zetta and
Yotta units are added for future proofing against the day we have 128
bit computers ...

[fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp: fix missed unsigned long long cast]
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>