Hi Jorgen, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on linux/master] [also build test WARNING on char-misc/char-misc-testing linus/master v5.11-rc3 next-20210111] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Jorgen-Hansen/VMCI-Enforce-queuepair-max-size-for-IOCTL_VMCI_QUEUEPAIR_ALLOC/20210111-204259 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 09162bc32c880a791c6c0668ce0745cf7958f576 config: i386-randconfig-s001-20210111 (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-15) 9.3.0 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.3-208-g46a52ca4-dirty # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/0923aeac7af9635dd6bf0141e8188f4815e573d2 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Jorgen-Hansen/VMCI-Enforce-queuepair-max-size-for-IOCTL_VMCI_QUEUEPAIR_ALLOC/20210111-204259 git checkout 0923aeac7af9635dd6bf0141e8188f4815e573d2 # save the attached .config to linux build tree make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=i386 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot "sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)" >> drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:533:20: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different type sizes): >> drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:533:20: sparse: unsigned int * >> drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:533:20: sparse: unsigned long * vim +533 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c 519 520 /* 521 * Allocates kernel VA space of specified size plus space for the queue 522 * and kernel interface. This is different from the guest queue allocator, 523 * because we do not allocate our own queue header/data pages here but 524 * share those of the guest. 525 */ 526 static struct vmci_queue *qp_host_alloc_queue(u64 size) 527 { 528 struct vmci_queue *queue; 529 size_t queue_page_size; 530 u64 num_pages; 531 const size_t queue_size = sizeof(*queue) + sizeof(*(queue->kernel_if)); 532 > 533 if (size > min(VMCI_MAX_GUEST_QP_MEMORY, SIZE_MAX - PAGE_SIZE)) 534 return NULL; 535 num_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, PAGE_SIZE) + 1; 536 if (num_pages > (SIZE_MAX - queue_size) / 537 sizeof(*queue->kernel_if->u.h.page)) 538 return NULL; 539 540 queue_page_size = num_pages * sizeof(*queue->kernel_if->u.h.page); 541 542 queue = kzalloc(queue_size + queue_page_size, GFP_KERNEL); 543 if (queue) { 544 queue->q_header = NULL; 545 queue->saved_header = NULL; 546 queue->kernel_if = (struct vmci_queue_kern_if *)(queue + 1); 547 queue->kernel_if->host = true; 548 queue->kernel_if->mutex = NULL; 549 queue->kernel_if->num_pages = num_pages; 550 queue->kernel_if->u.h.header_page = 551 (struct page **)((u8 *)queue + queue_size); 552 queue->kernel_if->u.h.page = 553 &queue->kernel_if->u.h.header_page[1]; 554 } 555 556 return queue; 557 } 558 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org