Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: fix compile error because of shift overflow

[Marc Zyngier]

Hi Yang,

In the future, please add all the KVM/arm64 reviewers mentioned in
MAINTAINERS when sending KVM/arm64 patches.

On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:41:58 +0100,
Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Change the mask to unsigned to fix the following fix compile error
> because of shift overflow when using low verison gcc(mine version is 7.5):
> 
> In function ‘kvm_vm_ioctl_set_device_addr.isra.38’,
>     inlined from ‘kvm_arch_vm_ioctl’ at arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c:1454:10:
> ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:354:38: error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_599’ \
> declared with attribute error: FIELD_GET: mask is not constant
>   _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
> 
> Fixes: 9f968c9266aa ("KVM: arm64: vgic-v2: Add helper for legacy dist/cpuif base address setting")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> index 3bb134355874..04ffa13d5e0a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct kvm_regs {
>  #define KVM_ARM_DEVICE_TYPE_SHIFT	0
>  #define KVM_ARM_DEVICE_TYPE_MASK	(0xffff << KVM_ARM_DEVICE_TYPE_SHIFT)
>  #define KVM_ARM_DEVICE_ID_SHIFT		16
> -#define KVM_ARM_DEVICE_ID_MASK		(0xffff << KVM_ARM_DEVICE_ID_SHIFT)
> +#define KVM_ARM_DEVICE_ID_MASK		(0xffffu << KVM_ARM_DEVICE_ID_SHIFT)

I'd rather you use GENMASK() for this, making it completely
unambiguous (and for KVM_ARM_DEVICE_TYPE_MASK as well).

Thanks,

	M.

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