On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 10:40 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 02:21:54PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> > It is wrong to change the endianness of a variable which has just one
> > byte size.
> >
> > Sparse warnings fixed:
> > drivers/staging//wimax/i2400m/control.c:452:17: warning: cast to restricted
> > __le32
> > drivers/staging//wimax/i2400m/control.c:452:17: warning: cast to restricted
> > __le32
> > drivers/staging//wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c:159:14: warning: cast to
> > restricted __le32
> > drivers/staging//wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c:160:14: warning: cast to
> > restricted __le32
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaan...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/control.c | 4 ++--
> > drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c | 4 ++--
> > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/control.c
> > b/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/control.c
> > index 1e270b2101e8..b6b2788af162 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/control.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/control.c
> > @@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ void i2400m_report_state_parse_tlv(struct i2400m
> > *i2400m,
> > d_printf(2, dev, "%s: RF status TLV "
> > "found (0x%04x), sw 0x%02x hw 0x%02x\n",
> > tag, I2400M_TLV_RF_STATUS,
> > - le32_to_cpu(rfss->sw_rf_switch),
> > - le32_to_cpu(rfss->hw_rf_switch));
> > + rfss->sw_rf_switch,
> > + rfss->hw_rf_switch);
>
> What do you mean by "one byte"? This is a le32 sized variable, right?
> If not, why isn't the le32_to_cpu() call complaining?
These two variables are of type _u8, one byte.
__u8 sw_rf_switch;
__u8 hw_rf_switch;
They aren't of type __le32. le32_to_cpu() macro should have
complained. But it isn't complaining. It seems like whatever we pass
to this macro, it casts it to __le32 forcefully (it seems like wrong).
So we'll never get any complain from this macro directly. But we are
getting complain from the sparse.
For big endian:
#define __le32_to_cpu(x) __swab32((__force __u32)(__le32)(x))
For little endian:
#define __le32_to_cpu(x) ((__force __u32)(__le32)(x))
> > i2400m_report_tlv_rf_switches_status(i2400m, rfss);
> > }
> > if (0 == i2400m_tlv_match(tlv, I2400M_TLV_MEDIA_STATUS, sizeof(*ms))) {
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c
> > b/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c
> > index fbddf2e18c14..a159808f0ec2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c
> > @@ -156,8 +156,8 @@ void i2400m_report_tlv_rf_switches_status(
> > enum i2400m_rf_switch_status hw, sw;
> > enum wimax_st wimax_state;
> >
> > - sw = le32_to_cpu(rfss->sw_rf_switch);
> > - hw = le32_to_cpu(rfss->hw_rf_switch);
> > + sw = rfss->sw_rf_switch;
> > + hw = rfss->hw_rf_switch;
>
> Same here.
Same here.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
