Re: [PATCH 4/4] dmaengine: zynqmp_dma: Typecast with enum to fix the coverity warning

From: Michael Tretter
Date: Thu Sep 23 2021 - 10:18:13 EST


On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:58:17 +0530, Harini Katakam wrote:
> From: Shravya Kumbham <shravya.kumbham@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Typecast the flags variable with (enum dma_ctrl_flags) in
> zynqmp_dma_prep_memcpy function to fix the coverity warning.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: Event mixed_enum_type.
> Signed-off-by: Shravya Kumbham <shravya.kumbham@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c b/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c
> index 588460e56ab8..282d01ab402f 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c
> @@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *zynqmp_dma_prep_memcpy(
>
> zynqmp_dma_desc_config_eod(chan, desc);
> async_tx_ack(&first->async_tx);
> - first->async_tx.flags = flags;
> + first->async_tx.flags = (enum dma_ctrl_flags)flags;

Thanks for the patch.

I looked at a few dmaengine drivers, at it looks like all of them have this
issue. Maybe we should change the signature of the dmaengine_prep_dma_memcpy()
engine to accept "enum dma_ctrl_flags flags" instead of "unsigned long flags"?

Michael

> return &first->async_tx;
> }
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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