Re: [PATCH] peak_usb: fix clang build warning

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 10:31:51 EST


On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 11:31:55AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Clang points out undefined behavior when building the pcan_usb_pro driver:
>
> drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c:136:15: error: passing an object that undergoes default argument promotion to 'va_start' has undefined behavior [-Werror,-Wvarargs]
>
> Changing the function prototype to avoid argument promotion in the
> varargs call avoids the warning, and should make this well-defined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/109
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

I wonder if the format specifier in the pr_err statement at the end of
this function should be updated.

> ---
> drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c
> index d516def846ab..b388406ac0f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c
> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static u8 *pcan_msg_init_empty(struct pcan_usb_pro_msg *pm,
> /*
> * add one record to a message being built
> */
> -static int pcan_msg_add_rec(struct pcan_usb_pro_msg *pm, u8 id, ...)
> +static int pcan_msg_add_rec(struct pcan_usb_pro_msg *pm, int id, ...)
> {
> int len, i;
> u8 *pc;
> --
> 2.20.0
>