Re: [NFS] [PATCH 013 of 20] knfsd: nfsd: factor out code from show_expflags

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Wednesday July 18, bfields@fieldses.org wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:29:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:27:37 +1000 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > +static void exp_flags(struct seq_file *m, int flag, int fsid,
> > > +		uid_t anonu, uid_t anong, struct nfsd4_fs_locations *fsloc)
> > > +{
> > > +	show_expflags(m, flag, NFSEXP_ALLFLAGS);
> > >  	if (flag & NFSEXP_FSID)
> > > -		seq_printf(m, "%sfsid=%d", first++?",":"", fsid);
> > > +		seq_printf(m, ",fsid=%d", fsid);
> > >  	if (anonu != (uid_t)-2 && anonu != (0x10000-2))
> > > -		seq_printf(m, "%sanonuid=%d", first++?",":"", anonu);
> > > +		seq_printf(m, ",sanonuid=%d", anonu);
> > 
> > It's a bit presumptuous to print a uid_t with "%d".  Fortunately it
> > will work OK with all the present architectures.
> > 
> > But in general: be cautious when feeding opaque types to printk.
> 
> OK, here I'm still confused--what should we be doing instead?

Cast the variable to a type that printf knows about.
       seq_printf(m, ",anonuid=%d", (int)anonu);

Or maybe cast it to (long) and use %ld, just in case...

Note the stray 's' in the current patch, after the comma!

NeilBrown