This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Fix signed/unsigned pointer warning
to the 3.18-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:
fix-signed-unsigned-pointer-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 97c7134ae22fbd2b8730211f9d4d4517264a8efe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:09:23 -0800
Subject: Fix signed/unsigned pointer warning
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From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 97c7134ae22fbd2b8730211f9d4d4517264a8efe upstream.
Commit 2ae83bf93882d1 ("[CIFS] Fix setting time before epoch (negative
time values)") changed "u64 t" to "s64 t", which makes do_div() complain
about a pointer signedness mismatch:
CC fs/cifs/netmisc.o
In file included from ./arch/mips/include/asm/div64.h:12:0,
from include/linux/kernel.h:124,
from include/linux/list.h:8,
from include/linux/wait.h:6,
from include/linux/net.h:23,
from fs/cifs/netmisc.c:25:
fs/cifs/netmisc.c: In function ‘cifs_NTtimeToUnix’:
include/asm-generic/div64.h:43:28: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
(void)(((typeof((n)) *)0) == ((uint64_t *)0)); \
^
fs/cifs/netmisc.c:941:22: note: in expansion of macro ‘do_div’
ts.tv_nsec = (long)do_div(t, 10000000) * 100;
Introduce a temporary "u64 abs_t" variable to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <steve.french@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/netmisc.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
@@ -926,6 +926,7 @@ cifs_NTtimeToUnix(__le64 ntutc)
/* Subtract the NTFS time offset, then convert to 1s intervals. */
s64 t = le64_to_cpu(ntutc) - NTFS_TIME_OFFSET;
+ u64 abs_t;
/*
* Unfortunately can not use normal 64 bit division on 32 bit arch, but
@@ -933,13 +934,14 @@ cifs_NTtimeToUnix(__le64 ntutc)
* to special case them
*/
if (t < 0) {
- t = -t;
- ts.tv_nsec = (long)(do_div(t, 10000000) * 100);
+ abs_t = -t;
+ ts.tv_nsec = (long)(do_div(abs_t, 10000000) * 100);
ts.tv_nsec = -ts.tv_nsec;
- ts.tv_sec = -t;
+ ts.tv_sec = -abs_t;
} else {
- ts.tv_nsec = (long)do_div(t, 10000000) * 100;
- ts.tv_sec = t;
+ abs_t = t;
+ ts.tv_nsec = (long)do_div(abs_t, 10000000) * 100;
+ ts.tv_sec = abs_t;
}
return ts;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cernekee@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/fix-signed-unsigned-pointer-warning.patch