Re: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c:2745:24: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32

From: Breno Leitao
Date: Mon Oct 28 2024 - 07:12:11 EST


On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 05:36:56PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Breno,
>
> First bad commit (maybe != root cause):
>
> tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head: 850925a8133c73c4a2453c360b2c3beb3bab67c9
> commit: 782fe08e9861d00ce8aca370453dd9ceb9a23d50 soc: fsl: qbman: FSL_DPAA depends on COMPILE_TEST
> date: 3 months ago
> config: arm-randconfig-r123-20241027 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20241027/202410271721.jiVrriXD-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
> compiler: clang version 20.0.0git (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 5886454669c3c9026f7f27eab13509dd0241f2d6)
> reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20241027/202410271721.jiVrriXD-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)
>
> If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
> the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202410271721.jiVrriXD-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c:2745:24: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c: note: in included file (through include/linux/module.h):
> include/linux/list.h:83:21: sparse: sparse: self-comparison always evaluates to true
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c: note: in included file:
> >> include/soc/fsl/qman.h:245:16: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
> >> include/soc/fsl/qman.h:245:16: sparse: sparse: cast from restricted __be16

Thanks. The commit above "782fe08e98 ("soc: fsl: qbman: FSL_DPAA depends
on COMPILE_TEST") was created to detect problems like this, since it is
not possible to compile-test dpaa driver.

Copying Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>, who currently maintains
this driver.