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Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:10:20 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, trix@...hat.com, razor@...ckwall.org,
        kerneljasonxing@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
        patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: ti: Fix format specifier in netcp_create_interface()

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 8:08 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> After commit 3948b05950fd ("net: introduce a config option to tweak
> MAX_SKB_FRAGS"), clang warns:
>
>   drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c:2085:4: warning: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
>                           MAX_SKB_FRAGS);
>                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   include/linux/dev_printk.h:144:65: note: expanded from macro 'dev_err'
>           dev_printk_index_wrap(_dev_err, KERN_ERR, dev, dev_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
>                                                                  ~~~     ^~~~~~~~~~~
>   include/linux/dev_printk.h:110:23: note: expanded from macro 'dev_printk_index_wrap'
>                   _p_func(dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);                       \
>                                ~~~    ^~~~~~~~~~~
>   include/linux/skbuff.h:352:23: note: expanded from macro 'MAX_SKB_FRAGS'
>   #define MAX_SKB_FRAGS CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS
>                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   ./include/generated/autoconf.h:11789:30: note: expanded from macro 'CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS'
>   #define CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS 17
>                                ^~
>   1 warning generated.
>
> Follow the pattern of the rest of the tree by changing the specifier to
> '%u' and casting MAX_SKB_FRAGS explicitly to 'unsigned int', which
> eliminates the warning.
>
> Fixes: 3948b05950fd ("net: introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS")
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> ---
> I am a little confused as to why the solution for this warning is
> casting to 'unsigned int' rather than just updating all the specifiers
> to be '%d', as I do not see how MAX_SKB_FRAGS can be any type other than
> just 'int' but I figured I would be consistent with the other fixes I
> have seen around this issue.

MAX_SKB_FRAGS might be defined by Kconfig, see:
 352 #define MAX_SKB_FRAGS CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS
in include/linux/skbuff.h. The Kconfig is declared in
net/Kconfig:254.

Because integer literals in C are signed, the cast is necessary to
avoid the format specifier from warning about the wrong signedness.
It would be preferable to have a `U` suffix on the literal value, then
the cast would be unnecessary.

Untested:
```
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 494a23a976b0..67cb6bfc4056 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ struct sk_buff;
 # define CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS 17
 #endif

-#define MAX_SKB_FRAGS CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS
+#define MAX_SKB_FRAGS CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS ## U

 extern int sysctl_max_skb_frags;
```
Perhaps other code using MAX_SKB_FRAGS might have to worry about
signedness and conversions.

But I think what you have is fine for now.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Though the above might be a longer-term solution since this might pop up again.

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c
> index 1bb596a9d8a2..d829113c16ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c
> @@ -2081,8 +2081,8 @@ static int netcp_create_interface(struct netcp_device *netcp_device,
>         netcp->tx_pool_region_id = temp[1];
>
>         if (netcp->tx_pool_size < MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
> -               dev_err(dev, "tx-pool size too small, must be at least %ld\n",
> -                       MAX_SKB_FRAGS);
> +               dev_err(dev, "tx-pool size too small, must be at least %u\n",
> +                       (unsigned int)MAX_SKB_FRAGS);
>                 ret = -ENODEV;
>                 goto quit;
>         }
>
> ---
> base-commit: 3b064f541be822dc095991c6dda20a75eb51db5e
> change-id: 20230329-net-ethernet-ti-wformat-acaa86350657
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers