Hi SCSI folks,
In an effort to get the kernel building warning free with Clang, we've
come across an interesting occurrence in a few scsi drivers:
drivers/scsi/hpsa.c:6533:7: warning: overflow converting case value to switch condition type (2148024833 to 18446744071562609153) [-Wswitch]
case CCISS_GETPCIINFO:
^
./include/uapi/linux/cciss_ioctl.h:65:26: note: expanded from macro 'CCISS_GETPCIINFO'
#define CCISS_GETPCIINFO _IOR(CCISS_IOC_MAGIC, 1, cciss_pci_info_struct)
^
./include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h:86:28: note: expanded from macro '_IOR'
#define _IOR(type,nr,size) _IOC(_IOC_READ,(type),(nr),(_IOC_TYPECHECK(size)))
^
./include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h:70:2: note: expanded from macro '_IOC'
(((dir) << _IOC_DIRSHIFT) | \
^
I see this warning in drivers/scsi/hpsa.c and drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
on an arm64 allyesconfig build and it has also been reported in a couple of files in
drivers/scsi/cxlflash.
As the warning states, there is an overflow because the switch statement's value is of
type int but the switch value is greater than INT_MAX. I did a brief sweep of the tree
and it seems that all uses of _IOC in switch statement values either are small enough
to fit into size int or the value is of size unsigned int.
I am unsure of the implications of using a smaller _IOC value or converting all ioctls
to expect a cmd of type unsigned int (especially since that has userspace implications)
but I didn't see any negative ioctl commands. Some clarity and insight would be
appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
Nathan
