Re: [PATCH RESEND] virtio: Fix typecast of pointer in vring_init()

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Jul 05 2015 - 06:59:13 EST


On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 09:21:22AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The virtio_ring.h header is used in userspace programs (ie. QEMU),
> too. Here we can not assume that sizeof(pointer) is the same as
> sizeof(long), e.g. when compiling for Windows, so the typecast in
> vring_init() should be done with (uintptr_t) instead of (unsigned long).
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>

This seems to break some userspace too:

INSTALL usr/include/linux/ (413 files)
CHECK usr/include/linux/ (413 files)
HOSTCC Documentation/accounting/getdelays
HOSTCC Documentation/connector/ucon
HOSTCC Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o
In file included from Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:36:0:
./usr/include/linux/virtio_ring.h: In function âvring_initâ:
./usr/include/linux/virtio_ring.h:146:24: error: âuintptr_tâ undeclared
(first use in this function)
vr->used = (void *)(((uintptr_t)&vr->avail->ring[num] +
sizeof(__virtio16)
^
./usr/include/linux/virtio_ring.h:146:24: note: each undeclared
identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
scripts/Makefile.host:108: recipe for target
'Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o' failed
make[3]: *** [Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o] Error 1
scripts/Makefile.build:403: recipe for target 'Documentation/mic/mpssd'
failed
make[2]: *** [Documentation/mic/mpssd] Error 2
scripts/Makefile.build:403: recipe for target 'Documentation/mic' failed
make[1]: *** [Documentation/mic] Error 2


E.g. fuse.h has this code:
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/types.h>
#else
#include <stdint.h>
#endif

Maybe we need something similar.

> ---
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
> index 915980a..8682551 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static inline void vring_init(struct vring *vr, unsigned int num, void *p,
> vr->num = num;
> vr->desc = p;
> vr->avail = p + num*sizeof(struct vring_desc);
> - vr->used = (void *)(((unsigned long)&vr->avail->ring[num] + sizeof(__virtio16)
> + vr->used = (void *)(((uintptr_t)&vr->avail->ring[num] + sizeof(__virtio16)
> + align-1) & ~(align - 1));
> }
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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