Patch "xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xen-avoid-type-warning-in-xchg_xen_ulong.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:53:10 +0200
Subject: xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


[ Upstream commit 9cc91f212111cdcbefa02dcdb7dd443f224bf52c ]

The improved type-checking version of container_of() triggers a warning for
xchg_xen_ulong, pointing out that 'xen_ulong_t' is unsigned, but atomic64_t
contains a signed value:

drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c: In function 'evtchn_2l_handle_events':
drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c:187:1020: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_187' declared with attribute error: pointer type mismatch in container_of()

This adds a cast to work around the warning.

Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Fixes: 85323a991d40 ("xen: arm: mandate EABI and use generic atomic operations.")
Fixes: daa2ac80834d ("kernel.h: handle pointers to arrays better in container_of()")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ static inline int xen_irqs_disabled(stru
 	return raw_irqs_disabled_flags(regs->ARM_cpsr);
 }
 
-#define xchg_xen_ulong(ptr, val) atomic64_xchg(container_of((ptr),	\
+#define xchg_xen_ulong(ptr, val) atomic64_xchg(container_of((long long*)(ptr),\
 							    atomic64_t,	\
 							    counter), (val))
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are

queue-4.9/net-mlx5-avoid-build-warning-for-uniprocessor.patch
queue-4.9/xen-avoid-type-warning-in-xchg_xen_ulong.patch