This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/net: fix a char signedness issue
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
selftests-net-fix-a-char-signedness-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d2208fab18b552fac856775254d212b6f7799072
Author: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Nov 24 12:15:20 2023 -0500
selftests/net: fix a char signedness issue
[ Upstream commit 7b29828c5af6841bdeb9fafa32fdfeff7ab9c407 ]
Signedness of char is signed on x86_64, but unsigned on arm64.
Fix the warning building cmsg_sender.c on signed platforms or
forced with -fsigned-char:
msg_sender.c:455:12:
error: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'char'
changes value from 128 to -128
[-Werror,-Wconstant-conversion]
buf[0] = ICMPV6_ECHO_REQUEST;
constant ICMPV6_ECHO_REQUEST is 128.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/911914
Fixes: de17e305a810 ("selftests: net: cmsg_sender: support icmp and raw sockets")
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231124171645.1011043-3-willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/cmsg_sender.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/cmsg_sender.c
index 24b21b15ed3fb..6ff3e732f449f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/cmsg_sender.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/cmsg_sender.c
@@ -416,9 +416,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct addrinfo hints, *ai;
struct iovec iov[1];
+ unsigned char *buf;
struct msghdr msg;
char cbuf[1024];
- char *buf;
int err;
int fd;
