Re: [mdadm PATCH 1/1] Fix a build error

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On 09/19/2017 11:48 PM, Xiao Ni wrote:
On the s390 platform the build fails with the error below.
Manage.c: In function 'Manage_subdevs':
Manage.c:1502:5: error: passing argument 3 of 'fstat_is_blkdev' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror]
      fstat_is_blkdev(tfd, dv->devname, &rdev);
      ^
In file included from Manage.c:25:0:
mdadm.h:1446:12: note: expected 'dev_t *' but argument is of type 'long unsigned int *'

It was introduced by commit 0a6bff09 (mdadm/util: unify fstat
checking blkdev into function). It needs to pass a type 'dev_t'
argument to fstat_is_blkdev, but it passes a type 'unsigned
long' argument. So use a temporary variable to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  Manage.c | 6 ++++--
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

So having a quick look at this, I have to say I don't like the casting back and forth. The fact that we carry rdev in an unsigned long in Manage_subdevs() seems dubious to me.

Did you look into what the implications would be to change it to a dev_t?

Jes
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