It seems there is no need to keep the inuse field signed and end up with compiler warnings for sign-compare.
CC libvhost-user.o libvhost-user.c: In function ‘vu_queue_pop’: libvhost-user.c:2763:19: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘unsigned int’ [-Werror=sign-compare] 2763 | if (vq->inuse >= vq->vring.num) { | ^~ libvhost-user.c: In function ‘vu_queue_rewind’: libvhost-user.c:2808:13: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘unsigned int’ and ‘int’ [-Werror=sign-compare] 2808 | if (num > vq->inuse) { | ^ Instead of casting the comparison to unsigned int, just make the inuse field unsigned int in the fist place. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org> --- subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h b/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h index aea7ec5061d5..8cda9b8f577a 100644 --- a/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h +++ b/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ typedef struct VuVirtq { /* Notification enabled? */ bool notification; - int inuse; + unsigned int inuse; vu_queue_handler_cb handler; -- 2.38.1