Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] lib/vsprintf: Force type of flags value for gfp_t

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Jul 31 2020 - 16:49:04 EST


On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:08:24 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sparse is not happy about restricted type being assigned:
> lib/vsprintf.c:1940:23: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> lib/vsprintf.c:1940:23: expected unsigned long [assigned] flags
> lib/vsprintf.c:1940:23: got restricted gfp_t [usertype]
>
> Force type of flags value to make sparse happy.
>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Petr or Sergey,

Want to take these through the printk tree?

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: used explicit type to be forced to (Steven)
> lib/vsprintf.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
> index 182a3e2e1629..c155769559ab 100644
> --- a/lib/vsprintf.c
> +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
> @@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ char *flags_string(char *buf, char *end, void *flags_ptr,
> names = vmaflag_names;
> break;
> case 'g':
> - flags = *(gfp_t *)flags_ptr;
> + flags = (__force unsigned long)(*(gfp_t *)flags_ptr);
> names = gfpflag_names;
> break;
> default: