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Re: [PATCH 5/5] check_kernel_printf.c: warn about "%lx", (long)ptr

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On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 09:25:15PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> For some reason this spits out an enourmous amount of false positives,
> making this entirely useless. We hit a lot of "%lx", (long)(a - b),
> but I don't understand why the a-b expression (a pointer difference)
> passes is_ptr_type().

Well, it is a pointer type.  If you do pointer math, you get pointer
results.  You can't really treat subtract different from addition
because container_of() is a subtraction.

regards,
dan carpenter

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