Re: fs/dlm/midcomms.c:913:22: sparse: sparse: restricted __le32 degrades to integer

From: Alexander Aring
Date: Sat Jan 22 2022 - 13:28:38 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 9:45 PM kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head: 9b57f458985742bd1c585f4c7f36d04634ce1143
> commit: 658bd576f95ed597e519cdadf1c86ac87c17aea5 fs: dlm: move version conversion to compile time
> date: 3 months ago
> config: x86_64-rhel-8.3-kselftests (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220122/202201221028.YKA8kSdm-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
> compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
> reproduce:
> # apt-get install sparse
> # sparse version: v0.6.4-dirty
> # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=658bd576f95ed597e519cdadf1c86ac87c17aea5
> git remote add linus https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> git fetch --no-tags linus master
> git checkout 658bd576f95ed597e519cdadf1c86ac87c17aea5
> # save the config file to linux build tree
> mkdir build_dir
> make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash
>
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate

I have it on my list but it isn't easy to make sparse happy here...
this is the second time the robot reported this issue. Is there a way
to turn the robot off in that case?

Maybe some human who reads that knows the answer?

Thanks.

- Alex