Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] openrisc: signal: Fix sparse address space warnings

From: Luc Van Oostenryck
Date: Sat Aug 08 2020 - 19:08:48 EST


On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 07:48:22AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 09:04:49PM +0200, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:07:24AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > > ---
> > > arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c | 14 +++++++-------
> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c
> > > index 4f0754874d78..7ce0728412f6 100644
> > > --- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c
> > > +++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c
> > > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ asmlinkage long _sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > * then frame should be dword aligned here. If it's
> > > * not, then the user is trying to mess with us.
> > > */
> > > - if (((long)frame) & 3)
> > > + if (((__force unsigned long)frame) & 3)
> > > goto badframe;
> >
> > Same as patch 6, the __force is not needed.
>
> Thanks, I thought this was complaining before, I tested now and there is no
> problem so I must have been mixed up with something else.

Sparse should have complained with with the cast to long but
purposely doesn't with unsigned long (or uintptr_t).
So, no mix up, I think.

Cheers,
-- Luc