Re: [GIT PULL] target updates for v3.17-rc3

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Hi Nicholas,

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:51:07 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
> <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Note that these patches where originally intended for -rc1, but missed
> > the merge window.  They are mostly iser-target related bug-fixes, along
> > with a few other very minor cleanups.
> 
> So this pull request was strictly speaking too late for rc3, but I
> went "what the hell, it's small" and pulled it anyway.
> 
> And then I get this:
> 
>   drivers/target/target_core_transport.c: In function
> ‘transport_dump_vpd_ident_type’:
>   drivers/target/target_core_transport.c:956:3: warning: passing
> argument 1 of ‘strlen’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
> [enabled by default]
>      len = strlen(len);
>      ^
>   In file included from include/linux/bitmap.h:8:0,
>                    from include/linux/cpumask.h:11,
>                    from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:4,
>                    from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:10,
>                    from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:20,
>                    from ./arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h:26,
>                    from include/linux/random.h:81,
>                    from include/linux/net.h:22,
>                    from drivers/target/target_core_transport.c:26:
>   include/linux/string.h:80:24: note: expected ‘const char *’ but
> argument is of type ‘int’
>    extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);
>                           ^
> 
> and I just go "Yeah, that broken crap can wait until 3.18 after all".
> 
> So it got unpulled.
> 
> That "strlen(len)" should clearly be a "strlen(buf)" in that commit
> 6cfa853ceee4, but equally clearly this pull request was pure and utter
> garbage, and that "cleanup" commit was shit that nobody had ever even
> bothered to compile.

I noticed this in linux-next today as well (in the target-update
tree).  Could I have that cleaned up, please?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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