netdev - Re: -Wconstant-conversion in drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:08:13 +0200
From:   Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: -Wconstant-conversion in drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c

Hi Nathan,

śr., 28 kwi 2021 o 20:04 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> napisał(a):
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 05:41:20PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was building s390 allyesconfig with clang and came across a curious
> > warning:
> >
> > drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c:580:41: warning:
> > implicit conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'int' changes value from
> > 18446744073709551584 to -32 [-Wconstant-conversion]
> >         mvpp2_pools[MVPP2_BM_SHORT].pkt_size = MVPP2_BM_SHORT_PKT_SIZE;
> >                                              ~ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2.h:699:33: note: expanded from
> > macro 'MVPP2_BM_SHORT_PKT_SIZE'
> > #define MVPP2_BM_SHORT_PKT_SIZE MVPP2_RX_MAX_PKT_SIZE(MVPP2_BM_SHORT_FRAME_SIZE)
> >                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2.h:634:30: note: expanded from
> > macro 'MVPP2_RX_MAX_PKT_SIZE'
> >         ((total_size) - NET_SKB_PAD - MVPP2_SKB_SHINFO_SIZE)
> >                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 1 warning generated.
> >
> > As far as I understand it, the warning comes from the fact that
> > MVPP2_BM_SHORT_FRAME_SIZE is treated as size_t because
> > MVPP2_SKB_SHINFO_SIZE ultimately calls ALIGN with sizeof(struct
> > skb_shared_info), which has typeof called on it.
> >
> > The implicit conversion probably is fine but it would be nice to take
> > care of the warning. I am not sure what would be the best way to do that
> > would be though. An explicit cast would take care of it, maybe in
> > MVPP2_SKB_SHINFO_SIZE since the actual value I see is 320, which is able
> > to be fit into type int easily.
> >
> > Any comments would be appreciated, there does not appear to be a
> > dedicated maintainer of this driver according to get_maintainer.pl.
>
> Sorry for the necrobump, I am doing a bug scrub and it seems like this
> driver now has maintainers so keying them in in case they have any
> comments/suggestions.
>

Thank you for your interest. Are you still reproducing the issue? With
clang 10.0.0 the compilation passes in my setup:
$ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make CC=clang
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/
  SYNC    include/config/auto.conf.cmd
  CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
  MKELF   scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
  CC      scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/sumversion.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/mod/modpost
  CC      kernel/bounds.s
  CC      arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s
  UPD     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
  LDS     arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds
  CC      arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o
  AS      arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o
  AS      arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o
  LD      arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg
  VDSOSYM include/generated/vdso-offsets.h
  OBJCOPY arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.o
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_prs.o
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_cls.o
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_debugfs.o
  AR      drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/built-in.a

Best regards,
Marcin