[dpdk-stable] patch 'ethdev: explicit cast of buffered Tx number' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.7

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.7

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/16/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 209ee9d9ac2e344325daf6029924f2aea50e2cfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 10:00:27 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ethdev: explicit cast of buffered Tx number

[ upstream commit b90406b9f7340466cbda287cd7454fae68868348 ]

In function 'rte_eth_tx_buffer_flush':
rte_ethdev.h:4248:55:
warning: conversion from 'int' to 'uint16_t'
{aka 'short unsigned int'} may change value [-Wconversion]
   buffer->error_callback(&buffer->pkts[sent], to_send - sent,

Fixes: d6c99e62c852 ("ethdev: add buffered Tx")

Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
index dc6d0cc91..87a230634 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -2886,8 +2886,9 @@ rte_eth_tx_buffer_flush(uint8_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id,
 
 	/* All packets sent, or to be dealt with by callback below */
 	if (unlikely(sent != to_send))
-		buffer->error_callback(&buffer->pkts[sent], to_send - sent,
-				buffer->error_userdata);
+		buffer->error_callback(&buffer->pkts[sent],
+				       (uint16_t)(to_send - sent),
+				       buffer->error_userdata);
 
 	return sent;
 }
-- 
2.14.2