On 02/19/2015, 05:10 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
>
>> gcc5 warns about passing a const array to hci_test_bit which takes a
>> non-const pointer:
>> net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c: In function ‘hci_sock_sendmsg’:
>> net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:955:8: warning: passing argument 2 of
>> ‘hci_test_bit’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type
>> [-Wdiscarded-array-qualifiers]
>> &hci_sec_filter.ocf_mask[ogf])) &&
>> ^
>> net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:49:19: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of
>> type ‘const __u32 (*)[4] {aka const unsigned int (*)[4]}’
>> static inline int hci_test_bit(int nr, void *addr)
>> ^
>>
>> So make 'addr' 'const void *'.
>>
>> [v2] make the pointer in the cast const too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
>> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org>
>> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gust...@padovan.org>
>> Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedb...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
>> index 1d65c5be7c82..d1a7d67619d8 100644
>> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
>> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
>> @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ struct hci_pinfo {
>> unsigned short channel;
>> };
>>
>> -static inline int hci_test_bit(int nr, void *addr)
>> +static inline int hci_test_bit(int nr, const void *addr)
>> {
>> - return *((__u32 *) addr + (nr >> 5)) & ((__u32) 1 << (nr & 31));
>> + return *((const __u32 *) addr + (nr >> 5)) & ((__u32) 1 << (nr & 31));
>> }
>
> we had a lengthy discussion about this before. I am reluctant to change any
> of this until we have a test tool that proofs this does not break userspace
> API compatibility.
>
> I don't see how just adding const would break anything, but I cautious since
> this code is pretty much a big mistake that we are carrying around for almost
> 14 years now.
Yeah, I understand, but relying on the compiler is worse in this case, I
think. Here, the function casts away const from a const array, which is
undefined behaviour (6.7.3 of the standard).
So all in all I believe applying this fix cannot make the code worse.
thanks,
--
js
suse labs
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