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From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
To: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: remove trunctaiton warning in BPF_LD_IMM64_RAW
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:58:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZfNW1GDMlRW2K__p@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240314103153.2489252-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>

On 03/14, Ben Dooks wrote:
> When building W=1, the following warningds get generated by lib/test_bpf.c
> due to the BPF_LD_IMM64_RAW() truncating a 64bit to 32bit value without
> a specific mask to do so.
> 
> lib/test_bpf.c:6441:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (ffffffff0000 becomes ffff0000)
> lib/test_bpf.c:6442:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (ffffffff0000 becomes ffff0000)
> lib/test_bpf.c:6473:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (123456789abcdef becomes 89abcdef)
> lib/test_bpf.c:6489:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (123456789abcdef becomes 89abcdef)
> lib/test_bpf.c:6490:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (123456780a0c0e0 becomes 80a0c0e0)
> lib/test_bpf.c:6599:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (123456789abcdef becomes 89abcdef)
> lib/test_bpf.c:6637:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (ffffffff0000 becomes ffff0000)
> 
> (more warnings truncated)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>

I wonder how many other places (in the kernel) we have where we silently
cast u64 to u32.. Surprised that's the only warning you get :-)

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-14 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-14 10:31 [PATCH] bpf: remove trunctaiton warning in BPF_LD_IMM64_RAW Ben Dooks
2024-03-14 19:58 ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2024-03-14 22:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov

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