linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] openrisc: signal: Fix sparse address space warnings

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Date:   Sun, 9 Aug 2020 07:48:22 +0900
From:   Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
To:     Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        openrisc@...ts.librecores.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] openrisc: signal: Fix sparse address space
 warnings

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 09:04:49PM +0200, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:07:24AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > ---
> >  arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c | 14 +++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c
> > index 4f0754874d78..7ce0728412f6 100644
> > --- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c
> > +++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c
> > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ asmlinkage long _sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >  	 * then frame should be dword aligned here.  If it's
> >  	 * not, then the user is trying to mess with us.
> >  	 */
> > -	if (((long)frame) & 3)
> > +	if (((__force unsigned long)frame) & 3)
> >  		goto badframe;
> 
> Same as patch 6, the __force is not needed.

Thanks,  I thought this was complaining before, I tested now and there is no
problem so I must have been mixed up with something else.

-Stafford