Messages in this thread |  | | From | Linus Walleij <> | Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:47:23 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RDMA/siw: fix pointer cast warning |
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 11:20 PM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann > > Sent: 15 December 2022 17:04 > > > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > > > The previous build fix left a remaining issue in configurations > > with 64-bit dma_addr_t on 32-bit architectures: > > > > drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c: In function 'siw_get_pblpage': > > drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c:32:37: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [- > > Werror=int-to-pointer-cast] > > 32 | return virt_to_page((void *)paddr); > > | ^ > > > > Use the same double cast here that the driver uses elsewhere > > to convert between dma_addr_t and void*. > > > > It took me a while to figure out why this driver does it > > like this, as there is no hardware access and it just stores > > kernel pointers in place of device addresses when communicating > > with the rdma core and with user space. > > I hope that doesn't mean it is relying on user space only > giving it back valid values?
It looks to me like this driver totally trusts userspace.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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