linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.10 10/27] xprtrdma: Squelch kbuild sparse complaint

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:58:28 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.10 10/27] xprtrdma: Squelch kbuild sparse complaint

4.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>

commit eed50879d64ab1b9f76445dbab822e43a098b309 upstream.

New complaint from kbuild for 4.9.y:

net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c:489:19: sparse: incompatible types in
    comparison expression (different type sizes)

verbs.c:
489	max_sge = min(ia->ri_device->attrs.max_sge, RPCRDMA_MAX_SEND_SGES);

I can't reproduce this running sparse here. Likewise, "make W=1
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.o" never indicated any issue.

A little poking suggests that because the range of its values is
small, gcc can make the actual width of RPCRDMA_MAX_SEND_SGES
smaller than the width of an unsigned integer.

Fixes: 16f906d66cd7 ("xprtrdma: Reduce required number of send SGEs")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
@@ -495,7 +495,8 @@ rpcrdma_ep_create(struct rpcrdma_ep *ep,
 	struct ib_cq *sendcq, *recvcq;
 	int rc;
 
-	max_sge = min(ia->ri_device->attrs.max_sge, RPCRDMA_MAX_SEND_SGES);
+	max_sge = min_t(unsigned int, ia->ri_device->attrs.max_sge,
+			RPCRDMA_MAX_SEND_SGES);
 	if (max_sge < RPCRDMA_MIN_SEND_SGES) {
 		pr_warn("rpcrdma: HCA provides only %d send SGEs\n", max_sge);
 		return -ENOMEM;