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authorKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>2022-04-25 21:26:28 +0200
committerKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>2023-09-12 05:59:47 +0200
commit83feeb195592b533541ff6399c8084e5b7c59677 (patch)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/string_helpers.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/string_helpers.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 9982344cca34..7713f73e66b0 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -31,9 +31,11 @@
* giving the size in the required units. @buf should have room for
* at least 9 bytes and will always be zero terminated.
*
+ * Return value: number of characters of output that would have been written
+ * (which may be greater than len, if output was truncated).
*/
-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"
@@ -126,8 +128,8 @@ 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);