2021-05-11 18:59:49

by J. Bruce Fields

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] lib/string_helpers: get rid of ugly *_escape_mem_ascii()

These look good to me, thanks for doing this!

--b.

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:08:04PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Get rid of ugly *_escape_mem_ascii() API since it's not flexible and
> has the only single user. Provide better approach based on usage of the
> string_escape_mem() with appropriate flags.
>
> Test cases has been expanded accordingly to cover new functionality.
>
> This is assumed to go either thru VFS or Andrew's tree. I don't expect
> too many changes in string_helpers.
>
> Changelog v3:
> - dropped moving seq_escape() to the header due to a lot of complaints from
> the (very) old code
> - added seq_escape_str() inliner
> - converted seq_escape() to use seq_escape_str() instead of seq_escape_mem()
>
> Changelog v2:
> - introduced seq_escape_mem() instead of poking seq_get_buf() (Al)
> - to keep balance of seq_get_buf() usage, convert seq_escape() to use above
> - added missed ESCAPE_APPEND flag in NFSv4 patch
> - moved indentation patch closer to the beginning of the series
> - reshuffled series to be in two groups: generic library extension
> followed by seq_file updates
>
> Andy Shevchenko (15):
> lib/string_helpers: Switch to use BIT() macro
> lib/string_helpers: Move ESCAPE_NP check inside 'else' branch in a
> loop
> lib/string_helpers: Drop indentation level in string_escape_mem()
> lib/string_helpers: Introduce ESCAPE_NA for escaping non-ASCII
> lib/string_helpers: Introduce ESCAPE_NAP to escape non-ASCII and
> non-printable
> lib/string_helpers: Allow to append additional characters to be
> escaped
> lib/test-string_helpers: Print flags in hexadecimal format
> lib/test-string_helpers: Get rid of trailing comma in terminators
> lib/test-string_helpers: Add test cases for new features
> MAINTAINERS: Add myself as designated reviewer for generic string
> library
> seq_file: Introduce seq_escape_mem()
> seq_file: Add seq_escape_str() as replica of string_escape_str()
> seq_file: Convert seq_escape() to use seq_escape_str()
> nfsd: Avoid non-flexible API in seq_quote_mem()
> seq_file: Drop unused *_escape_mem_ascii()
>
> MAINTAINERS | 8 ++
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +-
> fs/seq_file.c | 43 +++++----
> include/linux/seq_file.h | 10 ++-
> include/linux/string_helpers.h | 31 ++++---
> lib/string_helpers.c | 102 ++++++++++++---------
> lib/test-string_helpers.c | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 7 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.30.2