Re: [LKP] [xarray] 0e9446c35a: WARNING:at_include/linux/xarray.h:#xa_mk_value

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Nov 05 2018 - 12:58:09 EST


Willy,

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 11:03 PM kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> commit: 0e9446c35a80931044b6d8d2d74a9cabd248539f ("xarray: Add range store functionality")
...
> [ 11.880031] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at include/linux/xarray.h:54 xa_mk_value+0x7/0x10
> [ 11.881944] EIP: xa_mk_value+0x7/0x10
> [ 11.883565] Call Trace:
> [ 11.883565] __check_store_range+0xe/0x171
> [ 11.883565] check_store_range+0x5d/0x87

If I read this right, it's simply this case:

__check_store_range(xa, UINT_MAX + i, UINT_MAX + j);

which turns into negative values on a 32-bit machine, and then
xa_mk_value() warns.

Should that part of the test be surrounded by #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT? Or
did you _want_ the warnings?

Linus