Hi KP, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on bpf-next/master] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/KP-Singh/Generalizing-bpf_local_storage/20200709-181906 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git master config: s390-randconfig-s032-20200719 (attached as .config) compiler: s390-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0 reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.2-49-g707c5017-dirty # save the attached .config to linux build tree COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-9.3.0 make.cross C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=s390 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> kernel/bpf/bpf_local_storage.c:237:16: sparse: sparse: non size-preserving integer to pointer cast vim +237 kernel/bpf/bpf_local_storage.c 221 222 /* Publish local_storage to the address. This is used because we are already 223 * in a region where we cannot grab a lock on the object owning the storage ( 224 * (e.g sk->sk_lock). Hence, atomic ops is used. 225 * 226 * From now on, the addr pointer is protected 227 * by the local_storage->lock. Hence, upon freeing, 228 * the local_storage->lock must be held before unlinking the storage from the 229 * owner. 230 */ 231 int bpf_local_storage_publish(struct bpf_local_storage_elem *first_selem, 232 struct bpf_local_storage **addr, 233 struct bpf_local_storage *curr) 234 { 235 struct bpf_local_storage *prev; 236 > 237 prev = cmpxchg(addr, NULL, curr); 238 if (unlikely(prev)) { 239 /* Note that even first_selem was linked to smap's 240 * bucket->list, first_selem can be freed immediately 241 * (instead of kfree_rcu) because 242 * bpf_local_storage_map_free() does a 243 * synchronize_rcu() before walking the bucket->list. 244 * Hence, no one is accessing selem from the 245 * bucket->list under rcu_read_lock(). 246 */ 247 bpf_selem_unlink_map(first_selem); 248 return -EAGAIN; 249 } 250 251 return 0; 252 } 253 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org