seq_file: introduce seq_setwidth() and seq_pad()

There are several users who want to know bytes written by seq_*() for
alignment purpose.  Currently they are using %n format for knowing it
because seq_*() returns 0 on success.

This patch introduces seq_setwidth() and seq_pad() for allowing them to
align without using %n format.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index a290157265ef..1cd2388ca5bd 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -766,6 +766,21 @@ int seq_write(struct seq_file *seq, const void *data, size_t len)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_write);
 
+/**
+ * seq_pad - write padding spaces to buffer
+ * @m: seq_file identifying the buffer to which data should be written
+ * @c: the byte to append after padding if non-zero
+ */
+void seq_pad(struct seq_file *m, char c)
+{
+        int size = m->pad_until - m->count;
+        if (size > 0)
+                seq_printf(m, "%*s", size, "");
+        if (c)
+                seq_putc(m, c);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_pad);
+
 struct list_head *seq_list_start(struct list_head *head, loff_t pos)
 {
         struct list_head *lh;