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Subject: Re: [kbuild-all] Re: [linux-stable-rc:linux-4.4.y 1449/1774]
 drivers/input/joydev.c:485:16: warning: comparison of integer expressions of
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To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>, kbuild-all@lists.01.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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From:   Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
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Date:   Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:46:56 +0800
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On 7/19/21 3:17 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:39:16AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>>     drivers/input/joydev.c: In function 'joydev_handle_JSIOCSAXMAP':
>>     drivers/input/joydev.c:451:16: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'size_t' {aka 'long unsigned int'} [-Wsign-compare]
>>       451 |  for (i = 0; i < len && i < joydev->nabs; i++) {
> We should figure out a way to turn this warning off in the compiler.
>
> It's a stupid warning.  It never fixes any bugs.  It sometimes
> introduces bugs.
>
> In the kernel if you are in drivers/ and you have a loop which iterates
> over 2 million times that's probably a bug.  But GCC is very very
> stupid and not designed to be a static analysis tool.  It does not know
> which loops can iterate more than 2 million times.  Even when it knows
> that the loop only loops up to 5 or 10 times it still warns that maybe
> it will loop over 2 million times.  INSULTS AND DISPARAGEMENT!
>
> Seriously, please disable this warning unless you can point to one
> single bug that it has fixed.

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the explanation, we'll stop reporting this warning.

Best Regards,
Rong Chen

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter