[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix 32-bit compiler warning

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 October 2015 10:57:11 Christian König wrote:
>> On 07.10.2015 09:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > The new amdgpu driver passes a user space pointer in a 64-bit structure
>> > member, which is the correct way to do it, but it attempts to
>> > directly cast it to a __user pointer in the kernel, which causes
>> > a warning in three places:
>> >
>> > drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c: In function 'amdgpu_cs_parser_init':
>> > drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c:180:21: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>> >    chunk_array_user = (uint64_t __user *)(cs->in.chunks);
>> >
>> > This changes all three to add an intermediate cast to 'unsigned long'
>> > as other drivers do. This avoids the warning and works correctly on
>> > both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>
>> Well if I'm not completely mistaken this is the second time we need to
>> fix this because somebody thought the cast was unnecessary.
>>
>> Anyway the patch is Reviewed-by: Christian König
>> <christian.koenig at amd.com> and I'm going to keep an eye open for the
>> next time somebody tries to remove this.
>>
>
> Ok, thanks.
>
> I guess I should have added
>
> Fixes: e60b344f6c0eff ("drm/amdgpu: optimize amdgpu_parser_init")

Applied this that comment added.

Thanks!

Alex

>
>         Arnd
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