Re: dm: writecache: fix format string warning

From: Mike Snitzer
Date: Tue May 29 2018 - 14:09:35 EST


On Mon, May 28 2018 at 11:54am -0400,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The return type of ACCESS_ONCE is configuration dependent and may be either
> 'int' or 'long int' for the writecache_has_error() macro, so we get a warning
> like this for either format string:
>
> In file included from drivers/md/dm-writecache.c:8:
> drivers/md/dm-writecache.c: In function 'writecache_status':
> drivers/md/dm-writecache.c:2227:10: error: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'int' [-Werror=format=]
> DMEMIT("%ld %llu %llu %llu", writecache_has_error(wc),
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/device-mapper.h:549:46: note: in definition of macro 'DMEMIT'
> 0 : scnprintf(result + sz, maxlen - sz, x))
> ^
>
> The code is otherwise correct, so we just need to shut up the warning,
> which can be done using an extra type cast.
>
> Fixes: bb15b431d650 ("dm: add writecache target")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I've picked this up.