Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: Fix definition of hypercall input & output arg variables

[Wei Liu]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 07:31:54PM -0800, Michael Kelley wrote:
> The percpu variables hyperv_pcpu_input_arg and hyperv_pcpu_output_arg
> have been incorrectly defined since their inception.  The __percpu
> qualifier should be associated with the void * (i.e., a pointer), not
> with the target of the pointer. This distinction makes no difference
> to gcc and the generated code, but sparse correctly complains.  Fix
> the definitions in the interest of general correctness in addition
> to making sparse happy.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Good catch. I failed to interpret sparse's complaints.

Both patches queued to hyperv-next. Thanks.

> ---
>  drivers/hv/hv_common.c         | 4 ++--
>  include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
> index 7be173a..7477e5a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
> @@ -44,10 +44,10 @@
>  u32 hv_max_vp_index;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_max_vp_index);
>  
> -void  __percpu **hyperv_pcpu_input_arg;
> +void * __percpu *hyperv_pcpu_input_arg;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hyperv_pcpu_input_arg);
>  
> -void  __percpu **hyperv_pcpu_output_arg;
> +void * __percpu *hyperv_pcpu_output_arg;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hyperv_pcpu_output_arg);
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h b/include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h
> index 3e2248ac..95b7888 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h
> @@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ struct ms_hyperv_info {
>  };
>  extern struct ms_hyperv_info ms_hyperv;
>  
> -extern void  __percpu  **hyperv_pcpu_input_arg;
> -extern void  __percpu  **hyperv_pcpu_output_arg;
> +extern void * __percpu *hyperv_pcpu_input_arg;
> +extern void * __percpu *hyperv_pcpu_output_arg;
>  
>  extern u64 hv_do_hypercall(u64 control, void *inputaddr, void *outputaddr);
>  extern u64 hv_do_fast_hypercall8(u16 control, u64 input8);
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
>