[PATCH 4.5 143/200] paride: make verbose parameter an int again

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 02 2016 - 21:01:54 EST


4.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

commit dec63a4dec2d6d01346fd5d96062e67c0636852b upstream.

gcc-6.0 found an ancient bug in the paride driver, which had a
"module_param(verbose, bool, 0);" since before 2.6.12, but actually uses
it to accept '0', '1' or '2' as arguments:

drivers/block/paride/pd.c: In function 'pd_init_dev_parms':
drivers/block/paride/pd.c:298:29: warning: comparison of constant '1' with boolean expression is always false [-Wbool-compare]
#define DBMSG(msg) ((verbose>1)?(msg):NULL)

In 2012, Rusty did a cleanup patch that also changed the type of the
variable to 'bool', which introduced what is now a gcc warning.

This changes the type back to 'int' and adapts the module_param() line
instead, so it should work as documented in case anyone ever cares about
running the ancient driver with debugging.

Fixes: 90ab5ee94171 ("module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/block/paride/pd.c | 4 ++--
drivers/block/paride/pt.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/types.h>

-static bool verbose = 0;
+static int verbose = 0;
static int major = PD_MAJOR;
static char *name = PD_NAME;
static int cluster = 64;
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ enum {D_PRT, D_PRO, D_UNI, D_MOD, D_GEO,
static DEFINE_MUTEX(pd_mutex);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pd_lock);

-module_param(verbose, bool, 0);
+module_param(verbose, int, 0);
module_param(major, int, 0);
module_param(name, charp, 0);
module_param(cluster, int, 0);
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@

*/

-static bool verbose = 0;
+static int verbose = 0;
static int major = PT_MAJOR;
static char *name = PT_NAME;
static int disable = 0;
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int (*drives[4])[6] = {&drive0, &

#include <asm/uaccess.h>

-module_param(verbose, bool, 0);
+module_param(verbose, int, 0);
module_param(major, int, 0);
module_param(name, charp, 0);
module_param_array(drive0, int, NULL, 0);