Re: [PATCH 1/2] char: hide sparse expensive pointer subtraction warning in specialix.c

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 10:34 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> Andrew, take it or leave it, I just did this to make it easier to look at the other
> sparse issues....but without this sparse produces > 100 of these warnings for this
> file.
> 
>  drivers/char/specialix.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/specialix.c b/drivers/char/specialix.c
> index c0e08c7..5487f37 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/specialix.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/specialix.c
> @@ -228,21 +228,21 @@ static inline int sx_paranoia_check(struct specialix_port const * port,
>  /* Get board number from pointer */
>  static inline int board_No (struct specialix_board * bp)
>  {
> -	return bp - sx_board;
> +	return ((char *)bp - (char *)sx_board) * sizeof(*bp);
>  }

You've casted addresses to char then multiplied.
You need to divide.

Maybe it'd be better to change your sparse settings to
not print this warning rather than change normally
readable code to avoid the warning.

I like the control name "ptr-subtraction-blows".

$ make C=1 CHECKFLAGS="-Wno-ptr-subtraction-blows" drivers/char/specialix.o
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CHECK   drivers/char/specialix.c
drivers/char/specialix.c:2112:3: warning: context imbalance in 'sx_throttle' - unexpected unlock
  CC      drivers/char/specialix.o
drivers/char/specialix.c:2488: warning: ‘specialx_pci_tbl’ defined but not used