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Message-ID: <dea8be07-bc25-192c-ecd7-636cbdb2a629@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Jul 2022 14:25:09 +0800
From:   "Zhu, Lingshan" <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>
To:     Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        "jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "mst@...hat.com" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "xieyongji@...edance.com" <xieyongji@...edance.com>,
        "gautam.dawar@....com" <gautam.dawar@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 6/6] vDPA: fix 'cast to restricted le16' warnings in
 vdpa.c



On 7/2/2022 6:18 AM, Parav Pandit wrote:
>> From: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>
>> Sent: Friday, July 1, 2022 9:28 AM
>>
>> This commit fixes spars warnings: cast to restricted __le16 in function
>> vdpa_dev_net_config_fill() and
>> vdpa_fill_stats_rec()
>>
> Missing fixes tag.
I am not sure whether this deserve a fix tag, I will look into it.
>   
> But I fail to understand the warning.
> config.status is le16, and API used is to convert le16 to cpu.
> What is the warning about, can you please explain?
The warnings are:
drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c:828:19: warning: cast to restricted __le16
drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c:828:19: warning: cast from restricted __virtio16
>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 6 +++---
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c index
>> 846dd37f3549..ed49fe46a79e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
>> @@ -825,11 +825,11 @@ static int vdpa_dev_net_config_fill(struct
>> vdpa_device *vdev, struct sk_buff *ms
>>   		    config.mac))
>>   		return -EMSGSIZE;
>>
>> -	val_u16 = le16_to_cpu(config.status);
>> +	val_u16 = __virtio16_to_cpu(true, config.status);
>>   	if (nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_STATUS, val_u16))
>>   		return -EMSGSIZE;
>>
>> -	val_u16 = le16_to_cpu(config.mtu);
>> +	val_u16 = __virtio16_to_cpu(true, config.mtu);
>>   	if (nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MTU, val_u16))
>>   		return -EMSGSIZE;
>>
>> @@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ static int vdpa_fill_stats_rec(struct vdpa_device
>> *vdev, struct sk_buff *msg,
>>   	}
>>   	vdpa_get_config_unlocked(vdev, 0, &config, sizeof(config));
>>
>> -	max_vqp = le16_to_cpu(config.max_virtqueue_pairs);
>> +	max_vqp = __virtio16_to_cpu(true, config.max_virtqueue_pairs);
>>   	if (nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MAX_VQP,
>> max_vqp))
>>   		return -EMSGSIZE;
>>
>> --
>> 2.31.1