Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/45] 5.4.299-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 01:22:42PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sept 2025 at 01:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.299 release.
> > There are 45 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:55:53 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.299-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> 
> Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> NOTE:
> Following list of new build warnings noticed on arm build with gcc-12 and clang.
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c: In function 'lbs_associate':
> include/linux/kernel.h:843:43: warning: comparison of distinct pointer
> types lacks a cast
>   843 |                 (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
>       |                                           ^~
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/sta.c:1292:20: warning: comparison of
> distinct pointer types ('typeof (ssidie[1]) *' (aka 'const unsigned
> char *') and 'typeof (32) *' (aka 'int *'))
> [-Wcompare-distinct-pointer-types]
>  1292 |                         join.ssid_len = min(ssidie[1],
> IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN);
>       |
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c:1106:18: warning:
> comparison of distinct pointer types ('typeof (ssid_eid[1]) *' (aka
> 'const unsigned char *') and 'typeof (32) *' (aka 'int *'))
> [-Wcompare-distinct-pointer-types]
>  1106 |                 u32 ssid_len = min(ssid_eid[1], IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN);
>       |                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Not much I can do about this one, as the call to min() is correct.  It's
a type-check issue :(

thanks,

greg k-h