[PATCH 03/12] powerpc: Explicitly reverse bytes when checking for byte reversal

Benjamin Gray bgray at linux.ibm.com
Wed Oct 11 16:37:02 AEDT 2023


Sparse reports an invalid endian cast here. The code is written for
big endian platforms, so le32_to_cpu() acts as a byte reversal.

This file is checked by sparse on a little endian build though, so
replace the reverse function with the dedicated swab32() function to
better express the intent of the code.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
index ba287abcb008..dabbdd356664 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void __init mpic_test_broken_ipi(struct mpic *mpic)
 	mpic_write(mpic->gregs, MPIC_INFO(GREG_IPI_VECTOR_PRI_0), MPIC_VECPRI_MASK);
 	r = mpic_read(mpic->gregs, MPIC_INFO(GREG_IPI_VECTOR_PRI_0));
 
-	if (r == le32_to_cpu(MPIC_VECPRI_MASK)) {
+	if (r == swab32(MPIC_VECPRI_MASK)) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "mpic: Detected reversed IPI registers\n");
 		mpic->flags |= MPIC_BROKEN_IPI;
 	}
-- 
2.39.2



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