Re: [PATCH] bpf: avoid warning for wrong pointer cast

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Sat Apr 16 2016 - 20:47:56 EST


On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:29:33PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Two new functions in bpf contain a cast from a 'u64' to a
> pointer. This works on 64-bit architectures but causes a warning
> on all 32-bit architectures:
>
> kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c: In function 'bpf_perf_event_output_tp':
> kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:350:13: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
> u64 ctx = *(long *)r1;
>
> This changes the cast to first convert the u64 argument into a uintptr_t,
> which is guaranteed to be the same size as a pointer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 9940d67c93b5 ("bpf: support bpf_get_stackid() and bpf_perf_event_output() in tracepoint programs")

Thanks.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>

I guess I started to rely on 0-day build-bot too much.
This patch has been in my tree for 2+ weeks and then in net-next and
I didn't receive a single email from build-bot about this warning,
though I do receive them for my other work-in-progress stuff. Odd.
Fengguang, any idea why build-bot sometimes silent?