Re: arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv.h:79:30: sparse: sparse: cast truncates bits from constant value (1b009b becomes 9b)

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023, Yujie Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 09:49:43AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > > kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> > > > head:   3b47bc037bd44f142ac09848e8d3ecccc726be99
> > > > commit: a789aeba419647c44d7e7320de20fea037c211d0 KVM: VMX: Rename "vmx/evmcs.{ch}" to "vmx/hyperv.{ch}"
> > > > date:   1 year ago
> > > > config: x86_64-randconfig-123-20231130 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231130/202311302231.sinLrAig-lkp@intel.com/config)
> > > > compiler: clang version 16.0.4 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git ae42196bc493ffe877a7e3dff8be32035dea4d07)
> > > > reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231130/202311302231.sinLrAig-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)
> > > >
> > > > If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
> > > > the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
> > > > | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> > > > | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202311302231.sinLrAig-lkp@intel.com/
> > > >
> > > > sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> > > >    arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv.h:79:30: sparse: sparse: cast truncates bits from constant value (a000a becomes a)
> > > 
> > > This is what ROL16() macro does but the thing is: we actually want to
> > > truncate bits by doing an explicit (u16) cast. We can probably replace
> > > this with '& 0xffff':
> > > 
> > > #define ROL16(val, n) ((((u16)(val) << (n)) | ((u16)(val) >> (16 - (n)))) & 0xffff)
> > > 
> > > but honestly I don't see much point...
> > 
> > Yeah, just ignore 'em, we get the exact same sparse complaints in vmcs12.c and
> > have had great success ignoring those too :-)
> 
> Thanks for the information. We've disabled this warning in the bot to
> avoid sending reports against other files with similar code.

I would probably recommend keeping the sparse warning enabled, IIRC it does find
legitimate bugs from time to time.

Or are you able to disable just the ROL16() warning?  If so, super cool!