[PATCH] ARM(64): KVM: add signed type cast for comparation

Chen Gang gang.chen at asianux.com
Mon Jul 29 22:51:47 EDT 2013


Hello Maintainers:

Please help check the patch whether OK or not, when you have time.

Thanks.

On 07/22/2013 11:20 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
> 'len' is 'unsigned long' which is never less than zero.
> 
> So need a related type cast for comparation.
> 
> The related warning (when building ARM64 with allmodconfig):
> 
>   arch/arm64/kvm/../../../arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c:82:2: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen at asianux.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> index b8e06b7..626dfc8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static int decode_hsr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>  	}
>  
>  	len = kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_as(vcpu);
> -	if (unlikely(len < 0))
> +	if (unlikely((long)len < 0))
>  		return len;
>  
>  	is_write = kvm_vcpu_dabt_iswrite(vcpu);
> 


-- 
Chen Gang



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