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-rw-r--r--include/linux/string_helpers.h4
-rw-r--r--lib/string_helpers.c10
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index 9d1f5bb74dd5..58fb1f90eda5 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ 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);
int parse_int_array_user(const char __user *from, size_t count, int **array);
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);