[PATCH] arm64: csum: cast to the proper type

[Robin Murphy]

On 2021-03-15 01:26, Alex Elder wrote:
> The last line of ip_fast_csum() calls csum_fold(), forcing the
> type of the argument passed to be u32.  But csum_fold() takes a
> __wsum argument (which is __u32 __bitwise for arm64).  As long
> as we're forcing the cast, cast it to the right type.

Oddly, the commit adding the cast does specifically speak about 
converting to __wsum, so I'm not sure what happened there... :/

Anyway, this seems to make sense.

Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>

> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
> ---
> 
> With this patch in place, quite a few "different base types" sparse
> warnings go away on a full arm64 kernel build.  More specifically:
>    warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
>       expected restricted __wsum [usertype] csum
>       got unsigned int [usertype]
> 
> 					-Alex
> 
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/checksum.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/checksum.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/checksum.h
> index 93a161b3bf3fe..dc52b733675db 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/checksum.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/checksum.h
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static inline __sum16 ip_fast_csum(const void *iph, unsigned int ihl)
>   	} while (--n > 0);
>   
>   	sum += ((sum >> 32) | (sum << 32));
> -	return csum_fold((__force u32)(sum >> 32));
> +	return csum_fold((__force __wsum)(sum >> 32));
>   }
>   #define ip_fast_csum ip_fast_csum
>   
>