[PATCH] xfs: don't cast string literals
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Wed May 13 18:16:48 CDT 2015
The commit:
a9273ca5 xfs: convert attr to use unsigned names
added these (unsigned char *) casts, but then the _SIZE macros
return "7" - size of a pointer minus one - not the length of
the string. This is harmless in the kernel, because the _SIZE
macros are not used, but as we sync up with userspace, this will
matter.
I don't think the cast is necessary; i.e. assigning the string
literal to an unsigned char *, or passing it to a function
expecting an unsigned char *, should be ok, right?
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
---
I can send the xfsprogs version if you like, if this passes
muster ;)
(the other option is to cast it back to a (char *) in the sizeof
but then things are just getting weird IMHO...)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h
index 4daaa66..ff22a4d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h
@@ -1453,8 +1453,8 @@ struct xfs_acl {
sizeof(struct xfs_acl_entry) * XFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES((mp)))
/* On-disk XFS extended attribute names */
-#define SGI_ACL_FILE (unsigned char *)"SGI_ACL_FILE"
-#define SGI_ACL_DEFAULT (unsigned char *)"SGI_ACL_DEFAULT"
+#define SGI_ACL_FILE "SGI_ACL_FILE"
+#define SGI_ACL_DEFAULT "SGI_ACL_DEFAULT"
#define SGI_ACL_FILE_SIZE (sizeof(SGI_ACL_FILE)-1)
#define SGI_ACL_DEFAULT_SIZE (sizeof(SGI_ACL_DEFAULT)-1)
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