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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pte_t
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:23:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250624102346.4e175914@batman.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aFqj7CYRcEHFAi2e@casper.infradead.org>

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:11:08 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 01:42:53PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > On 19/06/25 6:56 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:  
> > > Unfortunately, the one example you've converted shows why this is a bad
> > > idea.  You're passing a pmd_t pointer to a function which is assuming a
> > > pte_t pointer.  And a pmd_t and a pte_t are sometimes different sizes!
> > > (eg sometimes one is 64 bit and the other 32 bit).  
> > 
> > As discussed on a separate thread, this might be addressed via separate
> > printf formats for each page table level e.g %ppte, %ppmd, and %ppud etc.   
> 
> There's still no typechecking!

There's lots of %pX formats that have no type checking. I think this is
an issue. Could we have one of the static checkers test these? Smatch,
sparse, whatever? Or maybe they do and I'm unaware of it?

-- Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-24 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-18  4:12 [RFC 0/2] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pte_t Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-18  4:12 ` [RFC 1/2] " Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-18  8:18   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-18  8:37     ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-18  8:44       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-18 18:16         ` Pedro Falcato
2025-06-19 13:08           ` Petr Mladek
2025-06-20  6:00             ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-18  8:19   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-18  8:33     ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-18  8:43       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-20  6:30         ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-18 17:46   ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-06-19  9:35     ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-19 12:00       ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-06-20  6:53         ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-21 19:14           ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-06-19 13:12     ` Petr Mladek
2025-06-20  6:38       ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-18 18:19   ` Pedro Falcato
2025-06-19  9:53     ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-19 13:26   ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-06-20  8:12     ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-24 13:11       ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-06-24 14:23         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-06-19 14:01   ` Petr Mladek
2025-06-20  8:02     ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-06-24 10:48       ` Petr Mladek
2025-06-24 13:09         ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-06-18  4:12 ` [RFC 2/2] kunit: printf: Add test case " Anshuman Khandual

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