linux-kernel - [PATCH] s390/time: Fix clk type in get_tod

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Date:   Sat,  8 Feb 2020 07:08:59 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] s390/time: Fix clk type in get_tod_clock

Clang warns:

In file included from ../arch/s390/boot/startup.c:3:
In file included from ../include/linux/elf.h:5:
In file included from ../arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:132:
In file included from ../include/linux/compat.h:10:
In file included from ../include/linux/time.h:74:
In file included from ../include/linux/time32.h:13:
In file included from ../include/linux/timex.h:65:
../arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h:160:20: warning: passing 'unsigned char
[16]' to parameter of type 'char *' converts between pointers to integer
types with different sign [-Wpointer-sign]
        get_tod_clock_ext(clk);
                          ^~~
../arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h:149:44: note: passing argument to
parameter 'clk' here
static inline void get_tod_clock_ext(char *clk)
                                           ^

Change clk's type to just be char so that it matches what happens in
get_tod_clock_ext.

Fixes: 57b28f66316d ("[S390] s390_hypfs: Add new attributes")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/861
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
---

Alternatively, changing the clk type in get_tod_clock_ext to unsigned
which is what it was in the early 2000s.

 arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
index 670f14a228e5..6bf3a45ccfec 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static inline void get_tod_clock_ext(char *clk)
 
 static inline unsigned long long get_tod_clock(void)
 {
-	unsigned char clk[STORE_CLOCK_EXT_SIZE];
+	char clk[STORE_CLOCK_EXT_SIZE];
 
 	get_tod_clock_ext(clk);
 	return *((unsigned long long *)&clk[1]);
-- 
2.25.0