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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] efi: Fix warning of int-to-pointer-cast on x86 32-bit builds
On Fri, 23 Oct, at 11:48:17AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> Commit 0f96a99dab36 ("efi: Add "efi_fake_mem" boot option")
> introduces the following warning message:
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/fake_mem.c:186:20: warning: cast to pointer
> from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>
> new_memmap_phy was defined as a u64 value and cast to void*, causing
> a int-to-pointer-cast warning on x86 32-bit builds.
> However, since the void* type is inappropriate for a physical
> address, the definition of struct efi_memory_map::phys_map has been
> changed to phys_addr_t in the previous patch, and so the cast can be
> dropped entirely.
>
> This patch also changes the type of the "new_memmap_phy" variable
> from "u64" to "phys_addr_t" to align with the types of
> memblock_alloc() and struct efi_memory_map::phys_map.
>
> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
> [ard.biesheuvel: removed void* cast, updated commit log]
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/fake_mem.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>


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