Symmetrically to VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(), we need a force-cast in VM_FAULT_GET_HINDEX() to tell sparse that this is intentional. Sparse complains about the current code when building a kernel with CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE: arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1058:53: warning: restricted vm_fault_t degrades to integer Fixes: 3d3539018d2c ("mm: create the new vm_fault_t type") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 7eade9132f02..4ef4bbe78a1d 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ enum vm_fault_reason { /* Encode hstate index for a hwpoisoned large page */ #define VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(x) ((__force vm_fault_t)((x) << 16)) -#define VM_FAULT_GET_HINDEX(x) (((x) >> 16) & 0xf) +#define VM_FAULT_GET_HINDEX(x) (((__force unsigned int)(x) >> 16) & 0xf) #define VM_FAULT_ERROR (VM_FAULT_OOM | VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | \ VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | \ -- 2.21.0.392.gf8f6787159e-goog