linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: x86: entry: vdso: fix type conversion on printf() call

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Message-ID: <1297989c-6a9e-0804-82a5-d55cc7502b77@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 15 Dec 2020 08:42:13 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@...ux.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: x86: entry: vdso: fix type conversion on printf()
 call

On 12/15/20 8:39 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:32 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/15/20 8:03 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
>>> Fixing the following compiler warning by explicit conversion to long:
>>>
>>> In file included from /home/nekrad/src/apu2-dev/pkg/kernel.apu2.git/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c:162:0:
>>> /home/nekrad/src/apu2-dev/pkg/kernel.apu2.git/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h: In function 'extract64':
>>> /home/nekrad/src/apu2-dev/pkg/kernel.apu2.git/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h:38:52: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t {aka unsigned int}' [-Wformat=]
>>>   fprintf(outfile, "static const unsigned char %s[%lu] = {", name, len);
>>>                                                     ^
>>>   CC      mm/filemap.o
>>> In file included from /home/nekrad/src/apu2-dev/pkg/kernel.apu2.git/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c:166:0:
>>> /home/nekrad/src/apu2-dev/pkg/kernel.apu2.git/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h: In function 'extract32':
>>> /home/nekrad/src/apu2-dev/pkg/kernel.apu2.git/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h:38:52: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t {aka unsigned int}' [-Wformat=]
>>>   fprintf(outfile, "static const unsigned char %s[%lu] = {", name, len);
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@...ux.net>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> size_t is normally printed with %zu.
>> Is there some reason that isn't being used here?
> 
> No.  Want to send a patch?
> 

I was hoping that Enrico would fix this and maybe address your other comment,
although I'm not so sure that I agree with it.

-- 
~Randy