Re: [PATCH] phy: intel: fix enum type mismatch warning

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Wed May 27 2020 - 12:40:40 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 03:45:06PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> clang points out that a local variable is initialized with
> an enum value of the wrong type:
>
> drivers/phy/intel/phy-intel-combo.c:202:34: error: implicit conversion from enumeration type 'enum intel_phy_mode' to different enumeration type 'enum intel_combo_mode' [-Werror,-Wenum-conversion]
> enum intel_combo_mode cb_mode = PHY_PCIE_MODE;
> ~~~~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> From reading the code, it seems that this was not only the
> wrong type, but not even supposed to be a code path that can
> happen in practice.
>
> Change the code to have no default phy mode but instead return an
> error for invalid input.
>
> Fixes: ac0a95a3ea78 ("phy: intel: Add driver support for ComboPhy")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/phy/intel/phy-intel-combo.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/intel/phy-intel-combo.c b/drivers/phy/intel/phy-intel-combo.c
> index c2a35be4cdfb..04f7b0d08742 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/intel/phy-intel-combo.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/intel/phy-intel-combo.c
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static int intel_cbphy_pcie_dis_pad_refclk(struct intel_cbphy_iphy *iphy)
>
> static int intel_cbphy_set_mode(struct intel_combo_phy *cbphy)
> {
> - enum intel_combo_mode cb_mode = PHY_PCIE_MODE;
> + enum intel_combo_mode cb_mode;
> enum aggregated_mode aggr = cbphy->aggr_mode;
> struct device *dev = cbphy->dev;
> enum intel_phy_mode mode;
> @@ -224,6 +224,8 @@ static int intel_cbphy_set_mode(struct intel_combo_phy *cbphy)
>
> cb_mode = SATA0_SATA1_MODE;
> break;
> + default:
> + return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> ret = regmap_write(cbphy->hsiocfg, REG_COMBO_MODE(cbphy->bid), cb_mode);
> --
> 2.26.2
>

I sent an almost identical patch:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200523035043.3305846-1-natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx/

I left out the default case since clang warns when a switch on an enum
does not handle all the values (compile time scream) versus a run time
scream like yours.

I don't have a preference for either so:

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>