On 12/08/20 17:35, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Valentin,
>
> Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:
>

[...]


> url:    
> https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Valentin-Schneider/sched-Instrument-sched-domain-flags/20200812-205638
> base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 
> 949bcb8135a96a6923e676646bd29cbe69e8350f
> config: i386-randconfig-s001-20200811 (attached as .config)
> compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-15) 9.3.0
> reproduce:
>         # apt-get install sparse
>         # sparse version: v0.6.2-168-g9554805c-dirty
>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>         make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=i386
>

>>> kernel/sched/debug.c:279:17: sparse: sparse: non size-preserving pointer to 
>>> integer cast
>>> kernel/sched/debug.c:279:17: sparse: sparse: non size-preserving integer to 
>>> pointer cast
>
>    271
>    272                tmp = kcalloc(data_size + 1, sizeof(tmp), GFP_KERNEL);
>    273                for_each_set_bit(idx, &flags, __SD_FLAG_CNT) {
>    274                        char *name = sd_flag_debug[idx].name;
>    275
>    276                        len += snprintf(tmp + len, strlen(name) + 2, 
> "%s ", name);
>    277                }
>    278
>  > 279                tmp += *ppos;

I pretty much copied kernel/sysctl.c::_proc_do_string() and I think that's
exactly the same types here: char* buffer incremented by loff_t offset. It
does look fine to me, but I can't really parse that warning.

>    280                len -= *ppos;
>    281
>    282                if (len > *lenp)
>    283                        len = *lenp;
>    284                if (len)
>    285                        memcpy(buffer, tmp, len);
>    286                if (len < *lenp) {
>    287                        ((char *)buffer)[len] = '\n';
>    288                        len++;
>    289                }
>    290
>    291                *lenp = len;
>    292                *ppos += len;
>    293
>    294                kfree(tmp);
>    295
>    296                return 0;
>    297        }
>    298
>
> ---
> 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation
> https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]

Reply via email to