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Message-ID: <20151221192021.GN30437@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:20:21 +0100
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
	intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm, i915: Fix pointer size cast

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 07:53:59PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> 
> gcc complains on 32-bit like this:
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c: In function ‘intel_plane_obj_offset’:
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:2954:11: warning: cast to pointer from \
> 	  integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>     offset = (unsigned char *)vma->node.start;
>              ^
> 
> because vma->node.start is u64 but a pointer on 32-bit is 4 bytes.
> 
> Do the calculations with an unsigned long directly and save us the
> casts.
> 
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
> Cc: intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
> Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

This has been fixed already in

commit 44eb0cb9620c6a53ec8e7073262e2af8079b727f
Author: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@...ux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 30 13:26:15 2015 +0200

    drm/i915: Avoid pointer arithmetic in calculating plane surface offset

Cheers,
Daniel
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> index 62211abe4922..640cb7c9b7f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> @@ -2941,7 +2941,7 @@ unsigned long intel_plane_obj_offset(struct intel_plane *intel_plane,
>  {
>  	const struct i915_ggtt_view *view = &i915_ggtt_view_normal;
>  	struct i915_vma *vma;
> -	unsigned char *offset;
> +	unsigned long offset;
>  
>  	if (intel_rotation_90_or_270(intel_plane->base.state->rotation))
>  		view = &i915_ggtt_view_rotated;
> @@ -2951,14 +2951,14 @@ unsigned long intel_plane_obj_offset(struct intel_plane *intel_plane,
>  		view->type))
>  		return -1;
>  
> -	offset = (unsigned char *)vma->node.start;
> +	offset = vma->node.start;
>  
>  	if (plane == 1) {
>  		offset += vma->ggtt_view.rotation_info.uv_start_page *
>  			  PAGE_SIZE;
>  	}
>  
> -	return (unsigned long)offset;
> +	return offset;
>  }
>  
>  static void skl_detach_scaler(struct intel_crtc *intel_crtc, int id)
> -- 
> 2.3.5
> 
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