Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: bfa: Avoid implicit enum conversion in bfad_im_post_vendor_event

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:57 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Clang warns when one enumerated type is implicitly converted to another.
>
> drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcs_lport.c:379:26: warning: implicit conversion
> from enumeration type 'enum bfa_lport_aen_event' to different
> enumeration type 'enum bfa_ioc_aen_event' [-Wenum-conversion]
>                                   BFA_AEN_CAT_LPORT, event);
>                                                      ^~~~~
>
> The root cause of these warnings is the bfad_im_post_vendor_event
> function, which expects a value from enum bfa_ioc_aen_event but there
> are multiple instances of values from enums bfa_port_aen_event,
> bfa_audit_aen_event, and bfa_lport_aen_event being used in this
> function.
>
> Given that this doesn't appear to be a problem since cat helps with
> differentiating the events, just change evt's type to int so that no
> conversion needs to happen and Clang won't warn. Update aen_type's type
> in bfa_aen_entry_s as members that hold enumerated types should be int.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/147
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> * Update aen_type's type in bfa_aen_entry_s to match evt

Thanks for respinning with this addition.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
>  drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h | 2 +-
>  drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_im.h      | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h
> index 3d0c96a5c873..c19c26e0e405 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_defs_svc.h
> @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ union bfa_aen_data_u {
>  struct bfa_aen_entry_s {
>         struct list_head        qe;
>         enum bfa_aen_category   aen_category;
> -       u32                     aen_type;
> +       int                     aen_type;
>         union bfa_aen_data_u    aen_data;
>         u64                     aen_tv_sec;
>         u64                     aen_tv_usec;
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_im.h b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_im.h
> index e61ed8dad0b4..bd4ac187fd8e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_im.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_im.h
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ struct bfad_im_s {
>  static inline void bfad_im_post_vendor_event(struct bfa_aen_entry_s *entry,
>                                              struct bfad_s *drv, int cnt,
>                                              enum bfa_aen_category cat,
> -                                            enum bfa_ioc_aen_event evt)
> +                                            int evt)
>  {
>         struct timespec64 ts;
>
> --
> 2.19.0
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers