Re: [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.3-rc1

[Huang, Ying]

Hi, Linus,

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 3:21 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Ah. Ying did it this way:
>
> Yeah, I saw that patch flying past, but I actually think that it only
> silences the warning almost by mistake. There's nothing fundamental in
> there that a compiler wouldn't just follow across two assignments, and
> it just happens to now not trigger any more.
>
> Assigning to a union entry is a more fundamental operation in that
> respect. Not that the compiler still doesn't see that it's assigning a
> value that in the end is not really type compatible, so a different
> version of gcc could still warn, but at that point I feel like it's
> more of an actual compiler bug than just "oh, the compiler didn't
> happen to follow the cast through a temporary".

Yes.  Your fix is much better.  This can be used for
__page_set_anon_rmap() family too to make the code look better?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying