linux-kernel - Re: [patch] pktcdvd: silence static checker warning

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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2013 15:37:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] pktcdvd: silence static checker warning

On Thu, 16 May 2013, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> Static checkers complain about widening the binary "not" operations here
> because sectors are u64 and "(pd)->settings.size" is unsigned int.
> It unintentionally clears the high 32 bits of the sector.  This means
> that the driver won't work for devices with over 2TB of space.  Since
> this is a DVD drive, we're unlikely to reach that limit, but we may as
> well silence the warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
> index 898fa74..09142c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
> @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@
>  
>  #define MAX_SPEED 0xffff
>  
> -#define ZONE(sector, pd) (((sector) + (pd)->offset) & ~((pd)->settings.size - 1))
> +#define ZONE(sector, pd) (((sector) + (pd)->offset) & \
> +			~(sector_t)((pd)->settings.size - 1))
>  
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(pktcdvd_mutex);
>  static struct pktcdvd_device *pkt_devs[MAX_WRITERS];

Makes sense. Applied, thanks Dan.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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