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-rw-r--r--include/linux/seq_buf.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/seq_buf.h b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
index f5a350347bc5..77e76e283370 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_buf.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ seq_buf_has_overflowed(struct seq_buf *s)
return s->len > s->size;
}
+/*
+ * Mark @s as overflowed, which discards the length of what it holds. The
+ * bytes up to its last one are the string from then on, as that is where
+ * seq_buf_str() terminates it, so a caller that could not fill the buffer
+ * has to NUL them itself before calling this.
+ */
static inline void
seq_buf_set_overflow(struct seq_buf *s)
{