Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32

Andreas Schwab
2021-03-03T15:38:47Z

On Mär 03 2021, Marco Elver wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 11:32, Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
>> ./include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: warning: format '%zd' expects argument of type 'signed size_t',
>> but argument 3 has type 'ptrdiff_t' {aka 'const long int'} [-Wformat=]
>> 5 | #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */
>> | ^~~~~~
>> ./include/linux/kern_levels.h:11:18: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_SOH'
>> 11 | #define KERN_ERR KERN_SOH "3" /* error conditions */
>> | ^~~~~~~~
>> ./include/linux/printk.h:343:9: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_ERR'
>> 343 | printk(KERN_ERR pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
>> | ^~~~~~~~
>> mm/kfence/report.c:233:3: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_err'
>> 233 | pr_err("Invalid free of 0x%p (in kfence-#%zd):\n", (void *)address,
>> | ^~~~~~
>>
>> Christophe
>
> No this is not expected. Is 'signed size_t' != 'long int' on ppc32?

If you want to format a ptrdiff_t you should use %td.

Andreas.

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