Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-dapm: Fix comparison of pointers

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 02:43:27PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12 2014, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > If we're worrying about standards conformance type stuff here this is
> > also buggy since it's out of spec to compare pointers that are not part
> > of the same array like this.  Casting to uintptr_t is a better fix here.

> I'm not worrying about standards conformance. Casting pointers to and
> from [unsigned] long is done everywhere in the kernel, and that's
> fine. But subtracting ints or longs and using the sign of the result for
> comparison is simply wrong. See acbbe6fbb2 (kcmp: fix standard
> comparison bug) for the long story. In this case the narrowing (when
> BITS_PER_LONG==64) of the result from long to int just makes it even
> more wrong.

*sigh*  If that's what you meant you should've said so in your commit
log since that's distinctly non-obvious.  In any case, regardless of why
you originally wanted to do this the fact remains that your new version
is out of spec.

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