Re: [PATCH] USB: mos7840: fix pointer casts

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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 08:41:12AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 08:09:29AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 01:34:42PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > Silence compiler warnings on 64-bit systems introduced by commit
> > > 05cf0dec ("USB: mos7840: fix race in led handling") which uses the
> > > usb-serial data pointer to temporarily store the device type during
> > > probe but failed to add the required casts.
> > > 
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 6 +++---
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
> > > index c10fc15..6350628 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
> > > @@ -2221,14 +2221,14 @@ static int mos7840_probe(struct usb_serial *serial,
> > >  
> > >  	kfree(buf);
> > >  out:
> > > -	usb_set_serial_data(serial, (void *)device_type);
> > > +	usb_set_serial_data(serial, (void *)(uintptr_t)device_type);
> > 
> > Really?  uintptr_t isn't a "normal" kernel type.
> 
> As Linux requires that an unsigned long fit into a pointer, you can
> change these to be "unsigned long" and that fixes the warning.  Want me
> to change that up in the patch?

Yes, please do that if you prefer not to use the typedef.

Thanks,
Johan
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