linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: lustre/lustre/libcfs: Fix type mismatch reported by sparse

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Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2015 22:38:13 +0530
From:	Niranjan Dighe <niranjan.dighe@...il.com>
To:	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@...il.com>,
	Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@...teo.de>,
	Matthew Tyler <matt.tyler@...shics.com>
Cc:	lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: lustre/lustre/libcfs: Fix type mismatch reported by
 sparse

The third argument to function kportal_memhog_alloc is expected to
be gfp_t whereas the actual argument was unsigned int. Fix this by
explicitly typecasting to gfp_t

Signed-off-by: Niranjan Dighe <niranjan.dighe@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c
index 96d9d46..9c79f6e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int libcfs_ioctl_int(struct cfs_psdev_file *pfile, unsigned long cmd,
 			/* XXX The ioc_flags is not GFP flags now, need to be fixed */
 			err = kportal_memhog_alloc(pfile->private_data,
 						   data->ioc_count,
-						   data->ioc_flags);
+					(__force gfp_t)data->ioc_flags);
 			if (err != 0)
 				kportal_memhog_free(pfile->private_data);
 		}
-- 
1.9.1

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