Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Clean up pointer casting

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri May 06 2016 - 06:44:49 EST


On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Hm, your patch throws a lot of warnings during allnoconfig builds:
>
> In file included from arch/x86/boot/compressed/error.c:6:0:
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h: In function âchoose_random_locationâ:
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h:83:9: warning: return makes pointer from integer
> without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
> return output_ptr;
> ^

Blergh, that's when choose_random_location() is a stub and it needs to
do

return (unsigned char *)output_ptr;

too.

Lemme run all the *config builds on the fixed version before I send you
a v2.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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