RE: [PATCH v1 1/1] ceph: Amend checking to fix `make W=1` build breakage

Viacheslav Dubeyko
2025-11-24T17:47:14Z

On Mon, 2025-11-24 at 17:09 +0200, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 08:42:13PM +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> > On Mon, 2025-11-10 at 21:43 +0200, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 07:37:13PM +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2025-11-10 at 15:44 +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > In a few cases the code compares 32-bit value to a SIZE_MAX derived
> > > > > constant which is much higher than that value on 64-bit platforms,
> > > > > Clang, in particular, is not happy about this
> > > > >
> > > > > fs/ceph/snap.c:377:10: error: result of comparison of constant 2305843009213693948 with expression of type 'u32' (aka 'unsigned int') is always false [-Werror,-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
> > > > > 377 | if (num > (SIZE_MAX - sizeof(*snapc)) / sizeof(u64))
> > > > > | ~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > >
> > > > > Fix this by casting to size_t. Note, that possible replacement of SIZE_MAX
> > > > > by U32_MAX may lead to the behaviour changes on the corner cases.
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > > - if (num > (SIZE_MAX - sizeof(*snapc)) / sizeof(u64))
> > > > > + if ((size_t)num > (SIZE_MAX - sizeof(*snapc)) / sizeof(u64))
> > > >
> > > > The same question is here. Does it makes sense to declare num as size_t? Could
> > > > it be more clean solution? Or could it introduce another warnings/errors?
> > >
> > > Maybe. Or even maybe the U32_MAX is the way to go: Does anybody check those
> > > corner cases? Are those never tested? Potential (security) bug?
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Whatever you find, in case if it will be not the proposed solution as is,
> > > consider these patches as Reported-by.
> > >
> > > And thanks for the reviews!
> >
> > I think we can take the patch as it. It looks good. Probably, it makes sense to
> > take a deeper look in the code on our side.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>
>
> Thanks, can this be applied? My builds are still broken.

The patchset has been applied on testing branch already [1].

Ilya, when are we planning to send this patchset upstream?

Thanks,
Slava.

[1] https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client.git