Re: [PATCH] accel/amdxdna: Fix incorrect type used for a local variable

[Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>]

On 8/26/25 09:50, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 8/26/2025 11:03 AM, Lizhi Hou wrote:
>> drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.c:794:13: sparse: sparse: incorrect 
>> type in assignment (different address spaces)
>>
>> Fixes: c8cea4371e5e ("accel/amdxdna: Add a function to walk hardware 
>> contexts")
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>> Closes: 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202508230855.0b9efFl6-lkp@intel.com/
>> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.c 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.c
>> index 16ac0cab4f44..2885a3c17e89 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.c
>> @@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ static int aie2_get_clock_metadata(struct 
>> amdxdna_client *client,
>>     static int aie2_hwctx_status_cb(struct amdxdna_hwctx *hwctx, void 
>> *arg)
>>   {
>> -    struct amdxdna_drm_query_hwctx __user *buf, *tmp __free(kfree) = 
>> NULL;
>> +    struct amdxdna_drm_query_hwctx *tmp __free(kfree) = NULL, __user 
>> *buf;
>
> IMO it would be better to just split these into two separate 
> declarations so that we don't have to worry about nuance of order of 
> operations resolving the type.

Sure.


Thanks,

Lizhi

>
>>       struct amdxdna_drm_get_info *get_info_args = arg;
>>         if (get_info_args->buffer_size < sizeof(*tmp))
>