Re: [PATCH] lockdep: address clang -Wformat warning printing for %hd

From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	"Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: address clang -Wformat warning printing for %hd
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:25:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdmNUkS0Hh_9-kvcDoK-UTUOV8hXsQx-R2o_T02fxMhFLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210322115531.3987555-1-arnd@kernel.org>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:55 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Clang doesn't like format strings that truncate a 32-bit
> value to something shorter:
>
> kernel/locking/lockdep.c:709:4: error: format specifies type 'short' but the argument has type 'int' [-Werror,-Wformat]
>
> In this case, the warning is a slightly questionable, as it could realize
> that both class->wait_type_outer and class->wait_type_inner are in fact
> 8-bit struct members, even though the result of the ?: operator becomes an
> 'int'.
>
> However, there is really no point in printing the number as a 16-bit
> 'short' rather than either an 8-bit or 32-bit number, so just change
> it to a normal %d.

Thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

>
> Fixes: de8f5e4f2dc1 ("lockdep: Introduce wait-type checks")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> index 70bf3e48eae3..bb3b0bc6ee17 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ static void print_lock_name(struct lock_class *class)
>
>         printk(KERN_CONT " (");
>         __print_lock_name(class);
> -       printk(KERN_CONT "){%s}-{%hd:%hd}", usage,
> +       printk(KERN_CONT "){%s}-{%d:%d}", usage,
>                         class->wait_type_outer ?: class->wait_type_inner,
>                         class->wait_type_inner);
>  }
> --
> 2.29.2
>

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers