From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751217AbdCBWBr (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2017 17:01:47 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0038.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.38]:50783 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750841AbdCBWBq (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2017 17:01:46 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:152:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:1801:2393:2553:2559:2562:2689:2915:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3353:3622:3865:3866:3867:3870:3872:3873:4321:4605:5007:6119:7903:10004:10400:10848:11026:11232:11657:11658:11783:11914:12043:12296:12438:12740:12895:13069:13255:13311:13357:13894:14181:14659:14721:21080:21434:21451:30054:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:1,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: fifth85_8b85ad913e35e X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2805 Message-ID: <1488491957.2179.18.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: lustre: lustre: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer From: Joe Perches To: SIMRAN SINGHAL Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, Florian Schilhabel , Greg KH , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg.drokin@intel.com, marvin24@gmx.de, outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:59:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <1488489544-25941-1-git-send-email-singhalsimran0@gmail.com> <1488489544-25941-3-git-send-email-singhalsimran0@gmail.com> <1488491006.2179.14.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.3-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 03:25 +0530, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote: > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 02:49 +0530, simran singhal wrote: > > > The following Coccinelle script was used to detect this: > > > @r@ > > > expression x; > > > void* e; > > > type T; > > > identifier f; > > > @@ > > > ( > > > *((T *)e) > > > > > > > > > > ((T *)x)[...] > > > > > > > > > > ((T*)x)->f > > > > > > > > > > - (T*) > > > e > > > ) > > > > NAK. > > > > Nice, but you still have to verify correctness > > before submitting these patches. > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c > > > > [] > > > @@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ static int mgc_set_info_async(const struct lu_env *env, struct obd_export *exp, > > > rc = sptlrpc_parse_flavor(val, &flvr); > > > if (rc) { > > > CERROR("invalid sptlrpc flavor %s to MGS\n", > > > - (char *)val); > > > + val); > > > > Try compiling this. > > > > I compiled it before sending. Did you look at the warnings?   CC [M]  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.o drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c: In function ‘mgc_set_info_async’: drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c:1036:115: warning: format ‘%s’ expects argument of type ‘char *’, but argument 3 has type ‘void *’ [-Wformat=]     CERROR("invalid sptlrpc flavor %s to MGS\n",