[PATCH] staging: vchip_arm: Fix misuse of %x

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Sep 22 22:19:34 PDT 2021


On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:55:54AM +0800, Guo Zhi wrote:
> Pointers should be printed with %p or %px rather than
> cast to (unsigned long) and printed with %lx.
> Change %lx to %pK to print the pointers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guo Zhi <qtxuning1999 at sjtu.edu.cn>
> ---
>  .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> index b5aac862a29..408e5fe710b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> @@ -591,11 +591,11 @@ service_callback(enum vchiq_reason reason, struct vchiq_header *header,
>  		return VCHIQ_SUCCESS;
>  
>  	vchiq_log_trace(vchiq_arm_log_level,
> -		"%s - service %lx(%d,%p), reason %d, header %lx, instance %lx, bulk_userdata %lx",
> -		__func__, (unsigned long)user_service,
> +		"%s - service %pK(%d,%p), reason %d, header %pK, instance %pK, bulk_userdata %pK",
> +		__func__, user_service,
>  		service->localport, user_service->userdata,
> -		reason, (unsigned long)header,
> -		(unsigned long)instance, (unsigned long)bulk_userdata);
> +		reason, header,
> +		instance, bulk_userdata);

Why print this out at all?  What uses this?  Can it just be deleted?

thanks,

greg k-h



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