On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 01:28 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Building vfio.o triggers a GCC warning (when building for 32 bits x86):
>     arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/vfio.c: In function 'kvm_vfio_set_group':
>     arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/vfio.c:104:22: warning: cast to pointer 
> from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>       void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
>                           ^
> 
> Silence this warning by casting arg to unsigned long.
> 
> argp's current type, "void __user *", is always casted to "int32_t
> __user *". So its type might as well be changed to "int32_t __user *".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebo...@tiscali.nl>

Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com>

> ---
> Compile tested on both 32 and 64 bits x86. I've no KVM capable hardware
> that is already running v3.13-rc* at hand. Besides, I wouldn't know how
> to test the codepaths I'm changing here.
> 
>  virt/kvm/vfio.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/vfio.c b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
> index ca4260e..b4f9507 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/vfio.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/vfio.c
> @@ -101,14 +101,14 @@ static int kvm_vfio_set_group(struct kvm_device *dev, 
> long attr, u64 arg)
>       struct kvm_vfio *kv = dev->private;
>       struct vfio_group *vfio_group;
>       struct kvm_vfio_group *kvg;
> -     void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
> +     int32_t __user *argp = (int32_t __user *)(unsigned long)arg;
>       struct fd f;
>       int32_t fd;
>       int ret;
>  
>       switch (attr) {
>       case KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ADD:
> -             if (get_user(fd, (int32_t __user *)argp))
> +             if (get_user(fd, argp))
>                       return -EFAULT;
>  
>               f = fdget(fd);
> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static int kvm_vfio_set_group(struct kvm_device *dev, 
> long attr, u64 arg)
>               return 0;
>  
>       case KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL:
> -             if (get_user(fd, (int32_t __user *)argp))
> +             if (get_user(fd, argp))
>                       return -EFAULT;
>  
>               f = fdget(fd);



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