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[=PATCH,net-next] net: tipc: Fix parameter types passed to %s formater

Message ID 20201028004333.929816-1-andrew@lunn.ch
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series [=PATCH,net-next] net: tipc: Fix parameter types passed to %s formater | expand

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Andrew Lunn Oct. 28, 2020, 12:43 a.m. UTC
Now that the compiler is performing printf checking, we get the warning:

net/tipc/netlink_compat.c: In function ‘tipc_nl_compat_link_stat_dump’:
net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:591:39: warning: format ‘%s’ expects argument of type ‘char *’, but argument 3 has type ‘void *’ [-Wformat=]
  591 |  tipc_tlv_sprintf(msg->rep, "\nLink <%s>\n",
      |                                      ~^
      |                                       |
      |                                       char *
      |                                      %p
  592 |     nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]));
      |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |     |
      |     void *

There is no nla_string(), so cast to a char *.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 17a90a2fe753..5c6206c9d6a8 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@  static int tipc_nl_compat_link_stat_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg,
 		return 0;
 
 	tipc_tlv_sprintf(msg->rep, "\nLink <%s>\n",
-			 nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]));
+			 (char *)nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]));
 
 	if (link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_BROADCAST]) {
 		__fill_bc_link_stat(msg, prop, stats);