Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - Various misc bits
 - kmemleak fixes
 - small befs, codafs, cifs, efs, freexxfs, hfsplus, minixfs, reiserfs things
 - fanotify
 - I appear to have become SuperH maintainer
 - ocfs2 updates
 - direct-io tweaks
 - a bit of the MM queue
 - printk updates
 - MAINTAINERS maintenance
 - some backlight things
 - lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - the rtc queue
 - nilfs2 updates
 - Small Documentation/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (237 commits)
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: remove references to patch-scripts
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLs
  Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt: remove changelog reference
  Documentation/kmemleak.txt: updates
  fs/reiserfs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache
  fs/reiserfs: move prototype declaration to header file
  fs/hfsplus/attributes.c: add __init to hfsplus_create_attr_tree_cache()
  fs/hfsplus/extents.c: fix concurrent acess of alloc_blocks
  fs/hfsplus/extents.c: remove unused variable in hfsplus_get_block
  nilfs2: update project's web site in nilfs2.txt
  nilfs2: update MAINTAINERS file entries fix
  nilfs2: verify metadata sizes read from disk
  nilfs2: add FITRIM ioctl support for nilfs2
  nilfs2: add nilfs_sufile_trim_fs to trim clean segs
  nilfs2: implementation of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctl
  nilfs2: add nilfs_sufile_set_suinfo to update segment usage
  nilfs2: add struct nilfs_suinfo_update and flags
  nilfs2: update MAINTAINERS file entries
  fs/coda/inode.c: add __init to init_inodecache()
  BEFS: logging cleanup
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 5e2cf6f342f8..0648291cdafe 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -364,7 +364,6 @@ enum format_type {
 	FORMAT_TYPE_SHORT,
 	FORMAT_TYPE_UINT,
 	FORMAT_TYPE_INT,
-	FORMAT_TYPE_NRCHARS,
 	FORMAT_TYPE_SIZE_T,
 	FORMAT_TYPE_PTRDIFF
 };
@@ -1538,10 +1537,6 @@ qualifier:
 		return fmt - start;
 		/* skip alnum */
 
-	case 'n':
-		spec->type = FORMAT_TYPE_NRCHARS;
-		return ++fmt - start;
-
 	case '%':
 		spec->type = FORMAT_TYPE_PERCENT_CHAR;
 		return ++fmt - start;
@@ -1564,6 +1559,15 @@ qualifier:
 	case 'u':
 		break;
 
+	case 'n':
+		/*
+		 * Since %n poses a greater security risk than utility, treat
+		 * it as an invalid format specifier. Warn about its use so
+		 * that new instances don't get added.
+		 */
+		WARN_ONCE(1, "Please remove ignored %%n in '%s'\n", fmt);
+		/* Fall-through */
+
 	default:
 		spec->type = FORMAT_TYPE_INVALID;
 		return fmt - start;
@@ -1737,20 +1741,6 @@ int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
 			++str;
 			break;
 
-		case FORMAT_TYPE_NRCHARS: {
-			/*
-			 * Since %n poses a greater security risk than
-			 * utility, ignore %n and skip its argument.
-			 */
-			void *skip_arg;
-
-			WARN_ONCE(1, "Please remove ignored %%n in '%s'\n",
-					old_fmt);
-
-			skip_arg = va_arg(args, void *);
-			break;
-		}
-
 		default:
 			switch (spec.type) {
 			case FORMAT_TYPE_LONG_LONG:
@@ -2025,19 +2015,6 @@ do {									\
 				fmt++;
 			break;
 
-		case FORMAT_TYPE_NRCHARS: {
-			/* skip %n 's argument */
-			u8 qualifier = spec.qualifier;
-			void *skip_arg;
-			if (qualifier == 'l')
-				skip_arg = va_arg(args, long *);
-			else if (_tolower(qualifier) == 'z')
-				skip_arg = va_arg(args, size_t *);
-			else
-				skip_arg = va_arg(args, int *);
-			break;
-		}
-
 		default:
 			switch (spec.type) {
 
@@ -2196,10 +2173,6 @@ int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf)
 			++str;
 			break;
 
-		case FORMAT_TYPE_NRCHARS:
-			/* skip */
-			break;
-
 		default: {
 			unsigned long long num;