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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PCI: Add cast when assigning PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK to a 32-bit variable
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On 11/04/2017 19:23, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:

> El Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:08:38PM +0200 Mason ha dit:
>
>> On 11/04/2017 03:24, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 03:24:57PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>>>
>>>> This fixes a clang warning about "implicit conversion from 'unsigned
>>>> long' to 'u32'"
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/pci/probe.c | 2 +-
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
>>>> index dfc9a2794141..148e80d5caf1 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
>>>> @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ int __pci_read_base(struct pci_dev *dev, enum pci_bar_type type,
>>>> u16 orig_cmd;
>>>> struct pci_bus_region region, inverted_region;
>>>>
>>>> - mask = type ? PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK : ~0;
>>>> + mask = type ? (u32)PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK : ~0;
>>>
>>> Can we put the cast in the PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK #define so we don't have to
>>> repeat it in all the uses?
>>
>> Fixing these "implicit conversion" warnings, especially for
>> unsigned types, is a slippery slope. (The behavior of the
>> conversion is well-defined.)
>>
>> How about changing the type of PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK instead?
>> It's defined as ~0x7ffUL but it's only used in the context
>> of u32.
>>
>> So make it an unsigned int:
>> #define PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK (~0x7ffU)
>>
>> AFAIU, unsigned int is 32 bits on all platforms supported
>> by Linux.
>
> I considered this initially, but wasn't sure if the unsigned long
> mask might be needed in some cases. From the comments I interpret that
> there should be no problems with using a 32 bit mask everywhere.
>
> I'll send out an updated patch shortly.

Full disclaimer: I'm just a grunt with no knowledge of
the PCI framework. Bjorn is the authority here ;-)

Regards.

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