clang finds a contruct suspicious that converts an unsigned character to a signed integer and back, causing an overflow: arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:4605:39: 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; ~~ ^~ arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:4607:38: error: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'u8' (aka 'unsigned char') changes value from -241 to 15 [-Werror,-Wconstant-conversion] u8 uf = (pfec & PFERR_USER_MASK) ? ~u : 0; ~~ ^~ arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:4609:39: error: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'u8' (aka 'unsigned char') changes value from -171 to 85 [-Werror,-Wconstant-conversion] u8 ff = (pfec & PFERR_FETCH_MASK) ? ~x : 0; ~~ ^~ Add an explicit cast to tell clang that everything works as intended here. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- 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 17ece7b994b1..aea7f969ecb8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -4602,11 +4602,11 @@ 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 */ -- 2.20.0