[PATCH] ocxl: Fix endiannes bug in read_afu_name()

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Tue Dec 11 11:05:47 AEDT 2018


On 11/12/18 2:10 am, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The double word returned by read_afu_info(OCXL_DVSEC_TEMPL_NAME) contains
> four characters of the AFU name, read from the PCI config space, hence
> with a little-endian ordering. When composing the string, a big-endian
> system must swap the bytes so that the characters appear in the right
> order.
> 
> Do this with le32_to_cpu().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org>

snowpatch reports the following sparse warning:

+drivers/misc/ocxl/config.c:321:24: warning: cast to restricted __le32

You probably need to change val from a u32 to a __le32.

> ---
>   drivers/misc/ocxl/config.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/config.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/config.c
> index 57a6bb1fd3c9..b76198ba8630 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/config.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/config.c
> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static int read_afu_name(struct pci_dev *dev, struct ocxl_fn_config *fn,
>   		if (rc)
>   			return rc;
>   		ptr = (u32 *) &afu->name[i];
> -		*ptr = val;
> +		*ptr = le32_to_cpu(val);
>   	}
>   	afu->name[OCXL_AFU_NAME_SZ - 1] = '\0'; /* play safe */
>   	return 0;
> 

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited



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