Re: kernel/vmcore_info.c:117 paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() warn: unsigned '_x' is never less than zero.

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 02/14/25 at 06:44pm, kernel test robot wrote:
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head:   128c8f96eb8638c060cd3532dc394d046ce64fe1
> commit: 443cbaf9e2fdbef7d7cae457434a6cb8a679441b crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c
> date:   12 months ago
> config: riscv-randconfig-r073-20250213 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250214/202502141843.5QoKdQ7g-lkp@intel.com/config)
> compiler: riscv32-linux-gcc (GCC) 14.2.0
> 
> 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@intel.com>
> | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202502141843.5QoKdQ7g-lkp@intel.com/
> 
> smatch warnings:
> kernel/vmcore_info.c:117 paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() warn: unsigned '_x' is never less than zero.

Thanks for reporting this.

I am preparing to reproduce this issue, while I may not know what are
the steps to reproduce.  Just run smatch or just build with the provided
riscv-randconfig-r073-20250213?

> 
> vim +/_x +117 kernel/vmcore_info.c
> 
>    114	
>    115	phys_addr_t __weak paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void)
>    116	{
>  > 117		return __pa(vmcoreinfo_note);
>    118	}
>    119	EXPORT_SYMBOL(paddr_vmcoreinfo_note);
>    120	
> 
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