[LTP] [PATCH] acct02: fix the ac_version check on big endian platforms

Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
Wed May 27 11:04:12 CEST 2020



----- Original Message -----
> If we are on a big endian platform where char is signed,
> the following compilation error is emitted:
> 
> acct02.c: In function ‘verify_acct’:
> acct02.c:38:37: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of
> data type [-Wtype-limits]
>  #define ACCT_MEMBER_V3(x) (((struct acct_v3 *)acc)->x)
>                                      ^
> acct02.c:144:6: note: in expansion of macro ‘ACCT_MEMBER_V3’
>   if (ACCT_MEMBER_V3(ac_version) != (3 | ACCT_BYTEORDER)) {
> 
> and the test case fails, because it cannot 'decrypt' the ac_version
> from the file:
> 
> acct02.c:238: INFO: Verifying using 'struct acct_v3'
> acct02.c:191: INFO: == entry 1 ==
> acct02.c:146: INFO: ac_version != 3 (-125)
> 
> One way to address that is to explicitly cast the expression
> we compare to (which is int) to the type of ac_version (which is char).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kholmanskikh <stanislav.kholmanskikh@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>



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