Re: [PATCH 2/3] tools lib traceevent: fix pointer-integer sizemismatch

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Wed Jan 15 2014 - 13:42:53 EST


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:14:06PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:44:07AM +0000, Mark Rutland escreveu:
> > The scsi and cfg80211 plugins cast between unsigned long long and
> > pointers, which is problematic for architectures where unsigned long
> > long is wider than the native pointer size:
> >
> > linux/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_scsi.c: In function âprocess_scsi_trace_parse_cdbâ:
> > linux/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_scsi.c:408:26: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> > scsi_trace_parse_cdb(s, (unsigned char *) args[1], args[2]);
> >
> > linux/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_cfg80211.c: In function âprocess___le16_to_cpupâ:
> > linux/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_cfg80211.c:11:18: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> > uint16_t *val = (uint16_t *) args[0];
> >
> > This patch adds an intermediate cast to unsigned long, silencing the
> > warning.
>
> Steven, Jiri: Acked-by?
>

yep, looks ok.. args values hold pointer values, so it's ok to
convert them to pointer's size, 'unsigned long' has pointer's
size on x86-32/64.

also it compiles for me ;-)

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka

> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_cfg80211.c | 2 +-
> > tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_scsi.c | 2 +-
> > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > I'm not sure about this one as I'm not certain I read all the sites
> > input values for args could be generated. I'd appreciate if someone more
> > familiar with traceevent plugins could verify this makes sense.
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_cfg80211.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_cfg80211.c
> > index dcab8e8..57e9822 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_cfg80211.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_cfg80211.c
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ static unsigned long long
> > process___le16_to_cpup(struct trace_seq *s,
> > unsigned long long *args)
> > {
> > - uint16_t *val = (uint16_t *) args[0];
> > + uint16_t *val = (uint16_t *) (unsigned long) args[0];
> > return val ? (long long) le16toh(*val) : 0;
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_scsi.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_scsi.c
> > index 6fb8e3e..7ef16cc 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_scsi.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/plugin_scsi.c
> > @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ scsi_trace_parse_cdb(struct trace_seq *p, unsigned char *cdb, int len)
> > unsigned long long process_scsi_trace_parse_cdb(struct trace_seq *s,
> > unsigned long long *args)
> > {
> > - scsi_trace_parse_cdb(s, (unsigned char *) args[1], args[2]);
> > + scsi_trace_parse_cdb(s, (unsigned char *) (unsigned long) args[1], args[2]);
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > --
> > 1.8.1.1
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