[PATCH 1/4] powerpc/prom: avoid endian conversions for linux, memory-limit node

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 14:54 +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
> As linux,memory-limit node is set and also later used by the kernel,
> avoid endian conversions for this property.
> 
> Fixes: 493adffcb43f ("powerpc: Make prom_init.c endian safe")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton at ozlabs.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> index 613f79f..723df83 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> @@ -3180,9 +3180,8 @@ unsigned long __init prom_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4,
>  	 * Fill in some infos for use by the kernel later on
>  	 */
>  	if (prom_memory_limit) {
> -		__be64 val = cpu_to_be64(prom_memory_limit);
>  		prom_setprop(prom.chosen, "/chosen", "linux,memory-limit",
> -			     &val, sizeof(val));
> +			     &prom_memory_limit, sizeof(prom_memory_limit));
>  	}
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
>  	if (prom_iommu_off)

NACK. The device-tree is big endian by convention.

Ben.