From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
ndesaulniers@google.com, dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: natechancellor@gmail.com, ebiggers@google.com,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: fix -Wvarags warning
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:13:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc23168b-7275-bae0-6039-04e261b3cbad@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539356751.2656.5.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Hi James,
>> So can't we simply use 'bool' or uint32 as the type for h3 instead
>> of re-ordering everything
>
> The problem is the standard is ambiguious. The only thing that's
> guaranteed to work for all time is a char *. If you want to keep the
> order, what I'd suggest is inserting a dummy pointer argument which is
> always expected to be NULL between the h3 and the varargs.
So maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but the issue seems to be that
unsigned char is promoted to 'unsigned char *' by Clang and probably
unsigned int or int by gcc.
So instead of having unsigned char h3, can't we simply have bool h3 or
unsigned int h3?
Regards,
-Denis
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
ndesaulniers@google.com, dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: natechancellor@gmail.com, ebiggers@google.com,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: fix -Wvarags warning
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:13:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc23168b-7275-bae0-6039-04e261b3cbad@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539356751.2656.5.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Hi James,
>> So can't we simply use 'bool' or uint32 as the type for h3 instead
>> of re-ordering everything
>
> The problem is the standard is ambiguious. The only thing that's
> guaranteed to work for all time is a char *. If you want to keep the
> order, what I'd suggest is inserting a dummy pointer argument which is
> always expected to be NULL between the h3 and the varargs.
So maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but the issue seems to be that
unsigned char is promoted to 'unsigned char *' by Clang and probably
unsigned int or int by gcc.
So instead of having unsigned char h3, can't we simply have bool h3 or
unsigned int h3?
Regards,
-Denis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-12 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-09 22:11 undefined behavior (-Wvarargs) in security/keys/trusted.c#TSS_authhmac() Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-09 22:11 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-11 16:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-11 16:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-11 16:10 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-11 16:10 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-11 20:31 ` [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: fix -Wvarags warning ndesaulniers
2018-10-11 20:31 ` ndesaulniers
2018-10-12 1:50 ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-12 1:50 ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-12 16:55 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 16:55 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:03 ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-12 17:03 ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-12 12:29 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 12:29 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 15:05 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 15:05 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 15:13 ` Denis Kenzior [this message]
2018-10-12 15:13 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 15:22 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 15:22 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 15:44 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 15:44 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 15:46 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 15:46 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 15:53 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 15:53 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 16:01 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 16:01 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 17:14 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:14 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 15:25 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 15:25 ` James Bottomley
2018-10-12 17:05 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:05 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:17 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:17 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:27 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 17:27 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 18:39 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 18:39 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:02 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:02 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-12 17:15 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-12 17:15 ` Denis Kenzior
2018-10-15 9:26 ` David Laight
2018-10-15 9:26 ` David Laight
2018-10-15 9:26 ` David Laight
2018-10-15 21:53 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-15 21:53 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-16 8:13 ` David Laight
2018-10-16 8:13 ` David Laight
2018-10-16 8:13 ` David Laight
2018-10-22 23:43 ` [PATCH v2] " ndesaulniers
2018-10-22 23:43 ` ndesaulniers
2018-10-23 0:00 ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-23 0:00 ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-24 8:36 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-10-24 8:36 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-10-29 17:54 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-29 17:54 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-02-11 18:36 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-02-11 18:36 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-02-12 23:12 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-02-12 23:12 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-02-14 10:52 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-02-14 10:52 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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