Re: [PATCH] IB/core: avoid 32-bit warning

From: Doug Ledford
Date: Wed Oct 21 2015 - 16:58:10 EST


On 10/07/2015 09:46 AM, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mercredi 07 octobre 2015 Ã 16:19 +0300, Sagi Grimberg a Ãcrit :
>> On 10/7/2015 3:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The INIT_UDATA() macro requires a pointer or unsigned long argument
>>> for
>>> both input and output buffer, and all callers had a cast from when
>>> the code was merged until a recent restructuring, so now we get
>>>
>>> core/uverbs_cmd.c: In function 'ib_uverbs_create_cq':
>>> core/uverbs_cmd.c:1481:66: warning: cast to pointer from integer of
>>> different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>>>
>>> This makes the code behave as before by adding back the cast to
>>> unsigned long.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Fixes: 565197dd8fb1 ("IB/core: Extend ib_uverbs_create_cq")
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
>>> b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
>>> index be4cb9f04be3..88b3b78340f2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
>>> @@ -1478,7 +1478,7 @@ ssize_t ib_uverbs_create_cq(struct
>>> ib_uverbs_file *file,
>>> if (copy_from_user(&cmd, buf, sizeof(cmd)))
>>> return -EFAULT;
>>>
>>> - INIT_UDATA(&ucore, buf, cmd.response, sizeof(cmd),
>>> sizeof(resp));
>>> + INIT_UDATA(&ucore, buf, (unsigned long)cmd.response,
>>> sizeof(cmd), sizeof(resp));
>>
>> Would it make sense to cast inside INIT_UDATA() and not have callers
>> worry about it?
>
> It's ... complicated. See INIT_UDATA_BUF_OR_NULL().
>
> Awayway, I have patch to do the opposite, eg. explicitly cast u64 value
> to (void __user *)(unsigned long) in the caller function instead, as it
> allows some safer / new operations on the response buffer.
>
> Regards.
>

I haven't seen this oether patch that Yann is talking about, so I've
taken this one.

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