[PATCH] nvmet: use appropriate types for authentication payload lengths

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Sat Oct 31 01:09:17 PDT 2026


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- [Low] nvmet: format specifier mismatch in nvmet_auth_challenge()
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commit 53d4c9b2a209bbb82f1d82e67292975434b27d23
Author: Sreeraj S Kurup <sreekuttan2156239 at gmail.com>

nvmet: use appropriate types for authentication payload lengths

This commit changes the payload length parameter al in nvmet_auth_challenge()
and nvmet_auth_success1() from int to u32, and changes data_size in
nvmet_auth_challenge() from int to size_t.

> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c
> index 70136f6c22e8c..99caad6fb87fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c
> @@ -448,13 +448,13 @@ void nvmet_execute_auth_send(struct nvmet_req *req)
>  	nvmet_req_complete(req, status);
>  }
>  
> -static int nvmet_auth_challenge(struct nvmet_req *req, void *d, int al)
> +static int nvmet_auth_challenge(struct nvmet_req *req, void *d, u32 al)
>  {
>  	struct nvmf_auth_dhchap_challenge_data *data = d;
>  	struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl = req->sq->ctrl;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  	int hash_len = nvme_auth_hmac_hash_len(ctrl->shash_id);
> -	int data_size = sizeof(*data) + hash_len;
> +	size_t data_size = sizeof(*data) + hash_len;
>  
>  	if (ctrl->dh_tfm)
>  		data_size += ctrl->dh_keysize;

[Severity: Low]
Now that al is u32 and data_size is size_t in nvmet_auth_challenge(), does the
pr_debug() immediately below also need its format specifiers updated from %d
to %u and %zu to avoid a -Wformat warning on 64-bit builds?

	if (al < data_size) {
		pr_debug("%s: buffer too small (al %d need %d)\n", __func__,
			 al, data_size);
		return -EINVAL;
	}

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