Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] devres: provide devm_krealloc()

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 7:19 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 06:27:12PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:40 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:02:05PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 7:43 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > > > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 07:05:33PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > > > +static struct devres *to_devres(void *data)
> > > > > > +{
> > > > > > +     return (struct devres *)((u8 *)data - ALIGN(sizeof(struct devres),
> > > > > > +                                                 ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN));
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you really need both explicit castings?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, we can probably drop the (struct devres *) here.
> > >
> > > void * -> u8 * here is also not needed, it is considered byte access IIRC.
> > >
> >
> > Actually it turns out that while we don't need the (void *) -> (u8 *)
> > casting, we must cast to (struct devres *) or the following error is
> > produced:
> >
> > drivers/base/devres.c: In function ‘to_devres’:
> > drivers/base/devres.c:41:21: error: returning ‘u8 *’ {aka ‘unsigned
> > char *’} from a function with incompatible return type ‘struct devres
> > *’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
> >   return ((u8 *)data - ALIGN(sizeof(struct devres),
> >          ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >         ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN));
> >         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Of course, you have to drop u8 * casting as well.
>

Yes, of course. Duh

Bart




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