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SubjectRe: [PATCH] lib: Fix some sparse warnings in devres.c
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:13:46AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Having a discussion about sparse warnings in the kernel, and that we
> should clean them up, I decided to pick a random file to do so. This
> happened to be devres.c which gives the following warnings:
>
> CHECK lib/devres.c
> lib/devres.c:83:9: warning: cast removes address space of expression
> lib/devres.c:117:31: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different address spaces)
> lib/devres.c:117:31: expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*
> lib/devres.c:117:31: got void *
> lib/devres.c:125:31: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different address spaces)
> lib/devres.c:125:31: expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*
> lib/devres.c:125:31: got void *
> lib/devres.c:136:26: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
> lib/devres.c:136:26: expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*[assigned] dest_ptr
> lib/devres.c:136:26: got void *
> lib/devres.c:226:9: warning: cast removes address space of expression
>
> Mostly it's just the use of typecasting to void * without adding
> __force, or returning ERR_PTR(-ESOMEERR) without typecasting to a
> __iomem type.
>
> I added a helper macro IOMEM_ERR_PTR() that does the typecast to make
> the code a little nicer than adding ugly typecasts to the code.
>
> This is applied against linux-next.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


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