Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2015-01-13
STALE4207d REVIEWED: 8 (8M)

[PATCH] rocker: fix harmless warning on 32-bit machines

From: jiri@resnulli.us (Jiri Pirko)
Date: 2015-01-13 14:36:35
Also in: netdev

Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:23:52PM CET, arnd at arndb.de wrote:
The rocker driver tries to assign a pointer to a 64-bit integer
and then back to a pointer. This is safe on all architectures,
but causes a compiler warning when pointers are shorter than
64-bit:

rocker/rocker.c: In function 'rocker_desc_cookie_ptr_get':
rocker/rocker.c:809:9: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
 return (void *) desc_info->desc->cookie;
        ^

This adds another cast to uintptr_t to tell the compiler
that it's safe.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
index 2f398fa4b9e6..cad8cf962cdf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
@@ -806,13 +806,13 @@ static bool rocker_desc_gen(struct rocker_desc_info *desc_info)
static void *rocker_desc_cookie_ptr_get(struct rocker_desc_info *desc_info)
{
-	return (void *) desc_info->desc->cookie;
+	return (void *)(uintptr_t)desc_info->desc->cookie;
}

static void rocker_desc_cookie_ptr_set(struct rocker_desc_info *desc_info,
				       void *ptr)
{
-	desc_info->desc->cookie = (long) ptr;
+	desc_info->desc->cookie = (uintptr_t) ptr;
}

static struct rocker_desc_info *
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