Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: kvm: avoid constant-conversion warning

[Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:12 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> clang finds a contruct suspicious that converts an unsigned
> character to a signed integer and back, causing an overflow:
>
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:4605:39: error: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'u8' (aka 'unsigned char') changes value from -205 to 51 [-Werror,-Wconstant-conversion]
>                 u8 wf = (pfec & PFERR_WRITE_MASK) ? ~w : 0;
>                    ~~                               ^~
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:4607:38: error: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'u8' (aka 'unsigned char') changes value from -241 to 15 [-Werror,-Wconstant-conversion]
>                 u8 uf = (pfec & PFERR_USER_MASK) ? ~u : 0;
>                    ~~                              ^~
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:4609:39: error: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'u8' (aka 'unsigned char') changes value from -171 to 85 [-Werror,-Wconstant-conversion]
>                 u8 ff = (pfec & PFERR_FETCH_MASK) ? ~x : 0;
>                    ~~                               ^~
>
> Add an explicit cast to tell clang that everything works as
> intended here.
>

Feel free to add:

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/95
( See also patch proposal of Matthias Kaehlcke )

I had a different "simpler" approach to not see this anymore :-).
( See attached 2 patches )

- Sedat -


> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 17ece7b994b1..aea7f969ecb8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -4602,11 +4602,11 @@ static void update_permission_bitmask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>                  */
>
>                 /* Faults from writes to non-writable pages */
> -               u8 wf = (pfec & PFERR_WRITE_MASK) ? ~w : 0;
> +               u8 wf = (pfec & PFERR_WRITE_MASK) ? (u8)~w : 0;
>                 /* Faults from user mode accesses to supervisor pages */
> -               u8 uf = (pfec & PFERR_USER_MASK) ? ~u : 0;
> +               u8 uf = (pfec & PFERR_USER_MASK) ? (u8)~u : 0;
>                 /* Faults from fetches of non-executable pages*/
> -               u8 ff = (pfec & PFERR_FETCH_MASK) ? ~x : 0;
> +               u8 ff = (pfec & PFERR_FETCH_MASK) ? (u8)~x : 0;
>                 /* Faults from kernel mode fetches of user pages */
>                 u8 smepf = 0;
>                 /* Faults from kernel mode accesses of user pages */
> --
> 2.20.0
>
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