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Message-Id: <20070718171859.8d1276fd.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:18:59 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 013 of 20] knfsd: nfsd: factor out code from
show_expflags
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:05:55 -0400
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:29:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:27:37 +1000 NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> > > +static void exp_flags(struct seq_file *m, int flag, int fsid,
> > > + uid_t anonu, uid_t anong, struct nfsd4_fs_locations *fsloc)
> > > +{
> > > + show_expflags(m, flag, NFSEXP_ALLFLAGS);
> > > if (flag & NFSEXP_FSID)
> > > - seq_printf(m, "%sfsid=%d", first++?",":"", fsid);
> > > + seq_printf(m, ",fsid=%d", fsid);
> > > if (anonu != (uid_t)-2 && anonu != (0x10000-2))
> > > - seq_printf(m, "%sanonuid=%d", first++?",":"", anonu);
> > > + seq_printf(m, ",sanonuid=%d", anonu);
> >
> > It's a bit presumptuous to print a uid_t with "%d". Fortunately it
> > will work OK with all the present architectures.
> >
> > But in general: be cautious when feeding opaque types to printk.
>
> OK, here I'm still confused--what should we be doing instead?
>
Nothing? I was just having a little self-muse.
If one was really anal, one could typecast it to an unsigned long long in
the printk, then feel smug when we switch to 64-bit uid's.
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