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

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jan 15 2014 - 14:40:47 EST


On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:14:06 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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, that's the correct solution.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

>
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

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