update_permission_bitmask() negates u8 bitmask values and assigns them to variables of type u8. Since the MSB is set in the bitmask values the compiler expands the negated values to int, which then are assigned to u8 variables. Cast the negated values back to u8. This fixes several warnings like this when building with clang: arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:4266:39: error: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'u8' (aka 'unsigned char') changes value from -205 to 51 [-Werror, -Wconstant-conversion] u8 wf = (pfec & PFERR_WRITE_MASK) ? ~w : 0; ~~ ^~ (gcc also raises a warning (see https://godbolt.org/g/6JWfWk), however it doesn't seem to be universally enabled) Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index d634f0332c0f..a83817fdbd87 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -4275,11 +4275,11 @@ static void update_permission_bitmask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, */ /* Faults from writes to non-writable pages */ - u8 wf = (pfec & PFERR_WRITE_MASK) ? ~w : 0; + u8 wf = (pfec & PFERR_WRITE_MASK) ? (u8)~w : 0; /* Faults from user mode accesses to supervisor pages */ - u8 uf = (pfec & PFERR_USER_MASK) ? ~u : 0; + u8 uf = (pfec & PFERR_USER_MASK) ? (u8)~u : 0; /* Faults from fetches of non-executable pages*/ - u8 ff = (pfec & PFERR_FETCH_MASK) ? ~x : 0; + u8 ff = (pfec & PFERR_FETCH_MASK) ? (u8)~x : 0; /* Faults from kernel mode fetches of user pages */ u8 smepf = 0; /* Faults from kernel mode accesses of user pages */ -- 2.18.0.rc1.244.gcf134e6275-goog