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

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:42 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/15/20 8:39 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:32 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>  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.

Using %zu would get rid of the line break entirely.  Enrico?

>
> --
> ~Randy
>