linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lockd and nfsd endianness annotation fixes

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Message-ID: <20070727011922.GC27538@fieldses.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:19:22 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockd and nfsd endianness annotation fixes

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:11:41AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday July 26, bfields@...ldses.org wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:33:49PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > Oops, thanks; these are my fault.
> > 
> > (How are you finding these?  I was assuming sparse, but running a make
> > -C2 just now I didn't see anything that would have suggested these
> > fixes.  I'm using whatever's current in Fedora--it says 0.3-1.fc7.  Do I
> > need something more recent?)
> 
> I have a note about that somewhere.....
> 
> > From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] nfs endianness annotations
> > Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:26:00 +0100
> > ....
> > 
> > Folks, seriously, please run sparse after changes; it's a simple matter of
> > make C=2 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ fs/nfs*/; nothing tricky and it saves a lot
> > of potential PITA...
> 
> And with lots of good intentions, I ran this about once, and promptly
> forgot.

Thanks, uh, I probably saw that message too.

Hm, trying it just now--it catches the svclock.c mistake, but not the
one in nfsd/nfs4xdr.c--at least not as far as I can tell.

--b.
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