Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/gt: fix unsigned integer to signed assignment

["Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:02:06AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> > Eliminate the follow smatch warning:
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c:4640
> > guc_create_virtual() warn: assigning (-2) to unsigned variable
> > 've->base.instance'.
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c:4641
> > guc_create_virtual() warn: assigning (-2) to unsigned variable
> > 've->base.uabi_instance'.
> >
> > Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> The report seems to be valid, but I don't think this is the fix.
> 
> Where do we even check for invalid instance/uabi_instance in code?

The whole thing seems rather poorly documented as there's a matching
uabi struct with __u16's and the negative values are defined right
there in the uapi header as well.

> 
> BR,
> Jani.
> 
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
> > index 36365bdbe1ee..dc7cc06c68e7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
> > @@ -328,10 +328,10 @@ struct intel_engine_cs {
> >  	intel_engine_mask_t logical_mask;
> >  
> >  	u8 class;
> > -	u8 instance;
> > +	s8 instance;
> >  
> >  	u16 uabi_class;
> > -	u16 uabi_instance;
> > +	s16 uabi_instance;
> >  
> >  	u32 uabi_capabilities;
> >  	u32 context_size;
> 
> -- 
> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel