On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 6:03 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The previous build fix left a remaining issue in configurations
> with 64-bit dma_addr_t on 32-bit architectures:
>
> drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c: In function 'siw_get_pblpage':
> drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c:32:37: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
> 32 | return virt_to_page((void *)paddr);
> | ^
>
> Use the same double cast here that the driver uses elsewhere
> to convert between dma_addr_t and void*.
>
> It took me a while to figure out why this driver does it
> like this, as there is no hardware access and it just stores
> kernel pointers in place of device addresses when communicating
> with the rdma core and with user space.
>
> Fixes: 0d1b756acf60 ("RDMA/siw: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page()")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
This driver is a big confusion for me too.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yours,
Linus Walleij
