linux-kernel - [PATCH] kvm: vfio: silence GCC warning

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:28:46 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: vfio: silence GCC warning

Building vfio.o triggers a GCC warning (when building for 32 bits x86):
    arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/vfio.c: In function 'kvm_vfio_set_group':
    arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/vfio.c:104:22: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
      void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
                          ^

Silence this warning by casting arg to unsigned long.

argp's current type, "void __user *", is always casted to "int32_t
__user *". So its type might as well be changed to "int32_t __user *".

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
---
Compile tested on both 32 and 64 bits x86. I've no KVM capable hardware
that is already running v3.13-rc* at hand. Besides, I wouldn't know how
to test the codepaths I'm changing here.

 virt/kvm/vfio.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/vfio.c b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
index ca4260e..b4f9507 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/vfio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
@@ -101,14 +101,14 @@ static int kvm_vfio_set_group(struct kvm_device *dev, long attr, u64 arg)
 	struct kvm_vfio *kv = dev->private;
 	struct vfio_group *vfio_group;
 	struct kvm_vfio_group *kvg;
-	void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
+	int32_t __user *argp = (int32_t __user *)(unsigned long)arg;
 	struct fd f;
 	int32_t fd;
 	int ret;
 
 	switch (attr) {
 	case KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ADD:
-		if (get_user(fd, (int32_t __user *)argp))
+		if (get_user(fd, argp))
 			return -EFAULT;
 
 		f = fdget(fd);
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static int kvm_vfio_set_group(struct kvm_device *dev, long attr, u64 arg)
 		return 0;
 
 	case KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL:
-		if (get_user(fd, (int32_t __user *)argp))
+		if (get_user(fd, argp))
 			return -EFAULT;
 
 		f = fdget(fd);
-- 
1.8.4.2

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