Re: [PATCH] EDAC, altera: work around int-to-pointer-cast warnings

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:09:26PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The altera edac driver passes a token from a DT resource as
> resource_size_t into an SMC call, but casts it to an __iomem pointer
> and then a plain void pointer inbetween, mixing three or four
> incompatible types in the process. The compiler complains about
> one of the conversions:
> 
> drivers/edac/altera_edac.c: In function 'altr_init_a10_ecc_block':
> drivers/edac/altera_edac.c:1053:10: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
>    base = (void __iomem *)res.start;
>           ^
> drivers/edac/altera_edac.c: In function 'altr_edac_a10_probe':
> drivers/edac/altera_edac.c:2062:10: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
>    base = (void __iomem *)res.start;
> 
> Using a static checker probably also notices the __iomem cast.  Solving
> this properly isn't trivial, but simply casting to a 'uintptr_t' instead
> of 'void __iomem *' makes it less wrong and should avoid the warnings.
> 
> Fixes: d5fc9125566c ("EDAC, altera: Combine Stratix10 and Arria10 probe functions")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 13 +++++++------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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