lib/vsprintf.c: expand field_width to 24 bits
Maurizio Lombardi reported a problem [1] with the %pb extension: It
doesn't work for sufficiently large bitmaps, since the size is stashed
in the field_width field of the struct printf_spec, which is currently
an s16. Concretely, this manifested itself in
/sys/bus/pseudo/drivers/scsi_debug/map being empty, since the bitmap
printer got a size of 0, which is the 16 bit truncation of the actual
bitmap size.
We do want to keep struct printf_spec at 8 bytes so that it can cheaply
be passed by value. The qualifier field is only used for internal
bookkeeping in format_decode, so we might as well use a local variable
for that. This gives us an additional 8 bits, which we can then use for
the field width.
To stay in 8 bytes, we need to do a little rearranging and make the type
member a bitfield as well. For consistency, change all the members to
bit fields. gcc doesn't generate much worse code with these changes (in
fact, bloat-o-meter says we save 300 bytes - which I think is a little
surprising).
I didn't find a BUILD_BUG/compiletime_assertion/... which would work
outside function context, so for now I just open-coded it.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2034835
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid open-coded BUILD_BUG_ON]
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reported-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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