Hi, Simon,
On 8/12/24 17:17, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 02:22:58AM +0200, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>> GCC 13.2.0 reported warning about (void *) beeing used as a param where (char *) is expected:
>
> nit: being
Ouch! No patch is small enough that one should take its correctness for granted. :-O
>> In file included from msg_oob.c:14:
>> msg_oob.c: In function ‘__recvpair’:
>> ../../kselftest_harness.h:106:40: warning: format ‘%s’ expects argument of type ‘char *’,
>> but argument 6 has type ‘const void *’ [-Wformat=]
>> 106 | fprintf(TH_LOG_STREAM, "# %s:%d:%s:" fmt "\n", \
>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ../../kselftest_harness.h:101:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘__TH_LOG’
>> 101 | __TH_LOG(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
>> | ^~~~~~~~
>> msg_oob.c:235:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘TH_LOG’
>> 235 | TH_LOG("Expected:%s", expected_errno ? strerror(expected_errno) : expected_buf);
>> | ^~~~~~
>> ../../kselftest_harness.h:106:40: warning: format ‘%s’ expects argument of type ‘char *’,
>> but argument 6 has type ‘const void *’ [-Wformat=]
>> 106 | fprintf(TH_LOG_STREAM, "# %s:%d:%s:" fmt "\n", \
>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ../../kselftest_harness.h:101:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘__TH_LOG’
>> 101 | __TH_LOG(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
>> | ^~~~~~~~
>> msg_oob.c:259:25: note: in expansion of macro ‘TH_LOG’
>> 259 | TH_LOG("Expected:%s", expected_errno ? strerror(expected_errno) : expected_buf);
>> | ^~~~~~
>
> Thanks, I see this too.
>
>> Casting param to (char *) silences the warning.
>
> It seems that all callers pass a string as the expected_errno argument.
> Perhaps it's type could be updated to char *, if that is what it is.
> I think this would avoid the need to cast.
Agreed and verified. If it is OK with you, I might post a v2.
Best regards,
Mirsad Todorovac
>> Fixes: d098d77232c37 ("selftest: af_unix: Add msg_oob.c.")
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: linux-kselftest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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