This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSD: Fix sparse warning to the 5.10-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: nfsd-fix-sparse-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 70b079a7e791e561ccb9542578b4eeb3ff1e0908 Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 13 16:44:20 2021 -0400 NFSD: Fix sparse warning [ Upstream commit c2f1c4bd20621175c581f298b4943df0cffbd841 ] /home/cel/src/linux/linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c:1539:24: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) /home/cel/src/linux/linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c:1539:24: expected restricted __be32 [usertype] status /home/cel/src/linux/linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c:1539:24: got int Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c index 52f3f35533791..eaf2f95d059ca 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ static ssize_t _nfsd_copy_file_range(struct nfsd4_copy *copy) u64 bytes_total = copy->cp_count; u64 src_pos = copy->cp_src_pos; u64 dst_pos = copy->cp_dst_pos; - __be32 status; + int status; /* See RFC 7862 p.67: */ if (bytes_total == 0)