Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: fix futex sanitization definition/prototype mismatch

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 03/19/2011 08:45 AM, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> Commit 8d7718aa082aaf30a0b4989e1f04858952f941bc changed "int"
> to "u32" in the prototypes but not the definition.
> I missed this when I saw the patch go by on LKML.
>
> We cast "u32 *" to "int *" since we are tying into the underlying
> atomics framework, and atomic_t uses int as its value type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf<cmetcalf@tilera.com>

Should we have caught this with a compiler warning (mismatch definition 
and prototype) ? If not, why not?

Compile and boot tested?

Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>

> ---
>   arch/tile/lib/atomic_32.c |   12 ++++++------
>   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/tile/lib/atomic_32.c b/arch/tile/lib/atomic_32.c
> index f02040d..4657021 100644
> --- a/arch/tile/lib/atomic_32.c
> +++ b/arch/tile/lib/atomic_32.c
> @@ -202,32 +202,32 @@ static inline int *__futex_setup(int __user *v)
>   	return __atomic_hashed_lock((int __force *)v);
>   }
>
> -struct __get_user futex_set(int __user *v, int i)
> +struct __get_user futex_set(u32 __user *v, int i)
>   {
>   	return __atomic_xchg((int __force *)v, __futex_setup(v), i);
>   }
>
> -struct __get_user futex_add(int __user *v, int n)
> +struct __get_user futex_add(u32 __user *v, int n)
>   {
>   	return __atomic_xchg_add((int __force *)v, __futex_setup(v), n);
>   }
>
> -struct __get_user futex_or(int __user *v, int n)
> +struct __get_user futex_or(u32 __user *v, int n)
>   {
>   	return __atomic_or((int __force *)v, __futex_setup(v), n);
>   }
>
> -struct __get_user futex_andn(int __user *v, int n)
> +struct __get_user futex_andn(u32 __user *v, int n)
>   {
>   	return __atomic_andn((int __force *)v, __futex_setup(v), n);
>   }
>
> -struct __get_user futex_xor(int __user *v, int n)
> +struct __get_user futex_xor(u32 __user *v, int n)
>   {
>   	return __atomic_xor((int __force *)v, __futex_setup(v), n);
>   }
>
> -struct __get_user futex_cmpxchg(int __user *v, int o, int n)
> +struct __get_user futex_cmpxchg(u32 __user *v, int o, int n)
>   {
>   	return __atomic_cmpxchg((int __force *)v, __futex_setup(v), o, n);
>   }

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel