Drivers: hv: vmbus: Correcting truncation error for constant HV_CRASH_CTL_CRASH_NOTIFY
authorNick Meier <nmeier@microsoft.com>
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:29:24 +0000 (12:29 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:53:54 +0000 (11:53 +0100)
commit5ef5b6927f14f29cacd78fa1fb861661a5367f13
tree94f4086d29e5bafc994b729f7baf1236d6ad6ffc
parent5abbbb75d733793b1637441691de95b7665cee85
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Correcting truncation error for constant HV_CRASH_CTL_CRASH_NOTIFY

HV_CRASH_CTL_CRASH_NOTIFY is a 64 bit number.  Depending on the usage context,
the value may be truncated. This patch is in response from the following
email from Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>:

    From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Subject:  [char-misc:char-misc-testing 25/45] drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c:67:9: sparse:
              constant 0x8000000000000000 is so big it is unsigned long

    tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git char-misc-testing
    head:   b3de8e3719e582f3182bb504295e4a8e43c8c96f
    commit: 96c1d0581d00f7abe033350edb021a9d947d8d81 [25/45] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add support for VMBus panic notifier handler
    reproduce:
      # apt-get install sparse
      git checkout 96c1d0581d00f7abe033350edb021a9d947d8d81
      make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
      make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__

    sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)

    drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c:67:9: sparse: constant 0x8000000000000000 is so big it is unsigned long
    ...

Signed-off-by: Nick Meier <nmeier@microsoft.com>
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h