Re: [PATCH 3/3] target: Minor sparse warning fixes and annotations

Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-01-24T22:12:30Z

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:51 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 13:33 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 14:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 12:37 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > > > -#define TASK_CMD(task) ((struct se_cmd *)task->task_se_cmd)
> > > > -#define TASK_DEV(task) ((struct se_device *)task->se_dev)
> > > > +#define TASK_CMD(task) ((task)->task_se_cmd)
> > > > +#define TASK_DEV(task) ((task)->se_dev)
> > >
> > > If sparse is objecting to things like this then sparse needs fixing:
> > > It's decreasing typesafety. the things being cast are void * ... they'd
> > > be depositable into any pointer whatsoever without the cast. With the
> > > cast in the #define, we pick up pointer mismatches (as we should).
> > > Without it, we don't. As long as the define is always a specific type,
> > > it *should* cast to it.
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm, good point.. In that case I will go ahead and drop this part of
> > the patch.
>
> Actually, I misspoke on this. They're not void *; they're defined as
> struct pointers ... so the cast is actually a spurious double cast. As
> long as the rest are, I'm fine with this.
>

Committed as seperate commit b58b76c -> lio-core-2.6.git/linus-38-rc2,
and picked into the mainline queue @ scsi-post-merge-2.6.git/for-jejb.

Thanks!

--nab