Re: [PATCH -mm] -funsigned-char, x86: make struct p4_event_bind::cntr signed array

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 01:17:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And in other cases, there's no actual difference at all, just
> different register usage, so the diff looks fairly big, but doesn't
> seem to be real.  In one case I looked at, it started with a 'movzbl',
> but it was that in both cases, because the type was actually 'unsigned
> char' to begin with. But for some reason it just used different
> registers. Example:
> 
>  - handle_control_request() in drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c
> 
>    The reason here *seems* to be that
> 
>                         char *buf;
>                         buf = (char *)urb->transfer_buffer;
> 
>    where it really probably should be 'u8 *buf', since it actually
> does a cast to 'u8' in one place, but there isn't even any read of
> that 'buf' pointer. So the difference seems to be entirely just some
> "different type in assignment" cast internal to gcc that then
> incidentally generated a random other choice in register allocation.

I've send a patch for this now:
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221021064453.3341050-1-gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and will take it through the USB tree, unless Jason wants to grab it
through his tree.

thanks,

greg k-h