lib/vsprintf.c: fix interaction of kasprintf() and vsnprintf() when using %pV

Otherwise, the warning at the top of vsnprintf() gets triggered by
kvasprintf()'s first invocation (with NULL buffer and zero size) of
vsnprintf().

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 1d659d7bb0f8ed595156f9863f773c476fe68d23..c11205688fb4d4ff070409557b633cf05c2d7c07 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
        case 'U':
                return uuid_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt);
        case 'V':
-               return buf + vsnprintf(buf, end - buf,
+               return buf + vsnprintf(buf, end > buf ? end - buf : 0,
                                       ((struct va_format *)ptr)->fmt,
                                       *(((struct va_format *)ptr)->va));
        case 'K':