Re: [PATCH] scsi scsi_transport_iscsi.c: fix misuse of %llu in scsi_transport_iscsi.c

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Oct 08 2021 - 23:14:43 EST


On Sat, 2021-10-09 at 11:02 +0800, Guo Zhi wrote:
> Pointers should be printed with %p or %px rather than
> cast to (unsigned long long) and printed with %llu.
> Change %llu to %p to print the pointer into sysfs.
][]
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
[]
> @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ show_transport_handle(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>  
>
>   if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>   return -EACCES;
> - return sysfs_emit(buf, "%llu\n",
> - (unsigned long long)iscsi_handle(priv->iscsi_transport));
> + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%p\n",
> + iscsi_ptr(priv->iscsi_transport));

iscsi_transport is a pointer isn't it?

so why not just

return sysfs_emit(buf, "%p\n", priv->iscsi_transport);

?