Re: mm/memory.c:3968:21: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 03:10:19PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > >> mm/memory.c:3968:21: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) @@    expected restricted vm_fault_t [usertype] ret @@    got e] ret @@
> >    mm/memory.c:3968:21:    expected restricted vm_fault_t [usertype] ret
> >    mm/memory.c:3968:21:    got int
> 
> Looking into https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> hugetlb_fault() is converted to return vm_fault_t. Not sure, why sparse is
> still throwing warnings.

Because there are two definitions of hugetlb_fault():

$ git grep -wn hugetlb_fault
include/linux/hugetlb.h:108:vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
include/linux/hugetlb.h:206:#define hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, addr, flags) ({ BUG(); 0; })