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authorKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>2022-04-25 15:26:28 -0400
committerKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>2022-08-08 11:04:45 -0400
commit0b1d01c360dca1442fbaf50f60654c9da034d349 (patch)
tree428f91adc8e13146aa0c73dd289e328c36cc71f9
parentf2f1d3b27749acedb2a4f4ea8a663f4f321b6a6b (diff)
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 return value of snprintf(). Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/string_helpers.h4
-rw-r--r--lib/string_helpers.c7
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index c048eaec0894..ae4383f0fe7b 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ enum string_size_units {
STRING_UNITS_2, /* use binary powers of 2^10 */
};
-void string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, enum string_size_units units,
- char *buf, int len);
+int string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, enum string_size_units units,
+ char *buf, int len);
#define UNESCAPE_SPACE BIT(0)
#define UNESCAPE_OCTAL BIT(1)
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index b366c660e684..a48c6a1cdd1d 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
* at least 9 bytes and will always be zero terminated.
*
*/
-void string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, const enum string_size_units units,
- char *buf, int len)
+int string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, const enum string_size_units units,
+ char *buf, int len)
{
static const char *const units_10[] = {
"B", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB", "ZB", "YB"
@@ -127,8 +127,7 @@ void string_get_size(u64 size, u64 blk_size, const enum string_size_units units,
else
unit = units_str[units][i];
- snprintf(buf, len, "%u%s %s", (u32)size,
- tmp, unit);
+ return snprintf(buf, len, "%u%s %s", (u32)size, tmp, unit);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(string_get_size);