linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/core: avoid 32-bit warning

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Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:19:27 +0300
From:	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/core: avoid 32-bit warning

On 10/7/2015 3:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The INIT_UDATA() macro requires a pointer or unsigned long argument for
> both input and output buffer, and all callers had a cast from when
> the code was merged until a recent restructuring, so now we get
>
> core/uverbs_cmd.c: In function 'ib_uverbs_create_cq':
> core/uverbs_cmd.c:1481:66: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>
> This makes the code behave as before by adding back the cast to
> unsigned long.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Fixes: 565197dd8fb1 ("IB/core: Extend ib_uverbs_create_cq")
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
> index be4cb9f04be3..88b3b78340f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
> @@ -1478,7 +1478,7 @@ ssize_t ib_uverbs_create_cq(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,
>   	if (copy_from_user(&cmd, buf, sizeof(cmd)))
>   		return -EFAULT;
>
> -	INIT_UDATA(&ucore, buf, cmd.response, sizeof(cmd), sizeof(resp));
> +	INIT_UDATA(&ucore, buf, (unsigned long)cmd.response, sizeof(cmd), sizeof(resp));

Would it make sense to cast inside INIT_UDATA() and not have callers
worry about it?
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