---

yaml
---
r: 203358
b: refs/heads/master
c: 7db6f5f
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: e490c1defec4236a6a131fe2d13bf7ba787c02f8
+refs/heads/master: 7db6f5fb65a82af03229eef104dc9899c5eecf33

trunk/include/linux/kernel.h

@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ static inline void might_fault(void)
 }
 #endif
 
+struct va_format {
+	const char *fmt;
+	va_list *va;
+};
+
 extern struct atomic_notifier_head panic_notifier_list;
 extern long (*panic_blink)(long time);
 NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)

trunk/lib/vsprintf.c

@@ -980,6 +980,11 @@ char *uuid_string(char *buf, char *end, const u8 *addr,
  *             [0][1][2][3]-[4][5]-[6][7]-[8][9]-[10][11][12][13][14][15]
  *           little endian output byte order is:
  *             [3][2][1][0]-[5][4]-[7][6]-[8][9]-[10][11][12][13][14][15]
+ * - 'V' For a struct va_format which contains a format string * and va_list *,
+ *       call vsnprintf(->format, *->va_list).
+ *       Implements a "recursive vsnprintf".
+ *       Do not use this feature without some mechanism to verify the
+ *       correctness of the format string and va_list arguments.
  *
  * Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
  * function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
@@ -1025,6 +1030,10 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
 		break;
 	case 'U':
 		return uuid_string(buf, end, ptr, spec, fmt);
+	case 'V':
+		return buf + vsnprintf(buf, end - buf,
+				       ((struct va_format *)ptr)->fmt,
+				       *(((struct va_format *)ptr)->va));
 	}
 	spec.flags |= SMALL;
 	if (spec.field_width == -1) {