Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv2 4/4] staging: android: ion: Add ioctl to query available heaps

[Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>]

On 09/02/2016 02:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday, September 2, 2016 2:27:21 PM CEST Laura Abbott wrote:
>>>
>>> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>>>
>>>    drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c: In function 'ion_query_heaps':
>>>>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c:1181:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>>>       (struct ion_heap_data __user *)query->heaps;
>>>       ^
>>>
>>
>> botching-up-ioctls.txt says:
>>
>>   * Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintprt_t on the userspace side and
>>     from/to a void __user * in the kernel. Try really hard not to delay this
>>     conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that
>>     diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide.
>>
>> This doesn't seem like it will work on 32-bit systems since you'll end up
>> with the warning above. Is there a better option or did I misunderstand
>> how that is supposed to work?
>>
>
> I don't know a better way that two cast, doing
> 	
> 	(struct ion_heap_data __user *)(uintptr_t)query->heaps;
>
> It may help to put this into an inline function though.
>
> 	Arnd
>

There already is one it turns out in kernel.h:

#define u64_to_user_ptr(x) (            \
{                                       \
         typecheck(u64, x);              \
         (void __user *)(uintptr_t)x;    \
}                                       \
)

At least this way I don't have to look at the double casts.

Thanks,
Laura