On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:01:00 +0100, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
We're seeing the following sparse warning in the SOF code:
sound/soc/sof/sof-audio.c:86:31: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) sound/soc/sof/sof-audio.c:86:31: expected restricted snd_pcm_state_t [usertype] state sound/soc/sof/sof-audio.c:86:31: got signed int [signed] [usertype] [explicitly-signed] state
The line under scrutiny where we assign "state" is as follows:
state = substream->runtime->status->state;
and it is defined as snd_pcm_state_t state;
There are other places (ex pcm_oss.c) where a similar assignment has been used as well.
What fixes the issue is a forced cast to snd_pcm_state_t as below before assigning: state = (__force snd_pcm_state_t)substream->runtime->status->state;
Do you think this is acceptable? If not, could you please suggest an alternative?
Hm, I don't see the warning in my code. Did you merge all upstream stuff and still get it?
It's been merged in the SOF tree (topic/sof-dev) and it'll be in the next batch I send. It's not upstream just yet because we want to remove the warning to make the patch nice and shiny :-)
I still wonder why I couldn't get it on my tree. I guess the code around that hasn't changed, right?
Wait... Is it a test on 32bit arch? If so, it might be a new thing for y2038 support. Then we may fix the uapi definition instead.
It's actually in your tree already, my mistake, see:
ee1e79b72e3cf ("ASoC: SOF: partition audio-related parts from SOF core")
It's with plain-vanilla x86_64, I can share the config.
Sorry, my bad, it seems that my sparse program was too old. After upgrading to the latest version, I could see the warning, too.
Takashi