[PATCH] tracing: Fix compilation warning on arm32

From: Pan Taixi
Date: Sun May 25 2025 - 21:48:09 EST


On arm32, size_t is defined to be unsigned int, while PAGE_SIZE is
unsigned long. This hence triggers a compilation warning as min()
asserts the type of two operands to be equal. Casting PAGE_SIZE to size_t
solves this issue and works on other target architectures as well.

Compilation warning details:

kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_splice_read_pipe':
./include/linux/minmax.h:20:28: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
(!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
^
./include/linux/minmax.h:26:4: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
(__typecheck(x, y) && __no_side_effects(x, y))
^~~~~~~~~~~

...

kernel/trace/trace.c:6771:8: note: in expansion of macro 'min'
min((size_t)trace_seq_used(&iter->seq),
^~~

Fixes: f5178c41bb43 ("tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer()")
Signed-off-by: Pan Taixi <pantaixi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 5b8db27fb6ef..766cb3cd254e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6824,7 +6824,7 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp,
ret = trace_seq_to_buffer(&iter->seq,
page_address(spd.pages[i]),
min((size_t)trace_seq_used(&iter->seq),
- PAGE_SIZE));
+ (size_t)PAGE_SIZE));
if (ret < 0) {
__free_page(spd.pages[i]);
break;
--
2.34.1