linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.9 451/757] powerpc/papr_scm: Fix warning triggered by perf_stats

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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:51:41 +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, Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.9 451/757] powerpc/papr_scm: Fix warning triggered by perf_stats_show()

From: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit ca78ef2f08ccfa29b711d644964cdf9d7ace15e5 ]

A warning is reported by the kernel in case perf_stats_show() returns
an error code. The warning is of the form below:

 papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@...00001:
 	  Failed to query performance stats, Err:-10
 dev_attr_show: perf_stats_show+0x0/0x1c0 [papr_scm] returned bad count
 fill_read_buffer: dev_attr_show+0x0/0xb0 returned bad count

On investigation it looks like that the compiler is silently
truncating the return value of drc_pmem_query_stats() from 'long' to
'int', since the variable used to store the return code 'rc' is an
'int'. This truncated value is then returned back as a 'ssize_t' back
from perf_stats_show() to 'dev_attr_show()' which thinks of it as a
large unsigned number and triggers this warning..

To fix this we update the type of variable 'rc' from 'int' to
'ssize_t' that prevents the compiler from truncating the return value
of drc_pmem_query_stats() and returning correct signed value back from
perf_stats_show().

Fixes: 2d02bf835e57 ("powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP")
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200912081451.66225-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
index a88a707a608aa..5493bc847bd08 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
@@ -785,7 +785,8 @@ static int papr_scm_ndctl(struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor *nd_desc,
 static ssize_t perf_stats_show(struct device *dev,
 			       struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
-	int index, rc;
+	int index;
+	ssize_t rc;
 	struct seq_buf s;
 	struct papr_scm_perf_stat *stat;
 	struct papr_scm_perf_stats *stats;
@@ -820,7 +821,7 @@ static ssize_t perf_stats_show(struct device *dev,
 
 free_stats:
 	kfree(stats);
-	return rc ? rc : seq_buf_used(&s);
+	return rc ? rc : (ssize_t)seq_buf_used(&s);
 }
 DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_RO(perf_stats);
 
-- 
2.25.1