On 08/28/2010 07:33 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Andrew, Nicolas,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>> From: Wolfgang Muees <wolfgang.m...@auerswald.de>
>>
>> Fixes two pointer errors, one which leads to memory overwrites if used with
>> large chunks of data.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Muees <wolfgang.m...@auerswald.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@atmel.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c |    8 +++++---
>>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c
>> index 63924e0..6835104 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c
>> @@ -227,11 +227,13 @@ static inline void at91_mci_sg_to_dma(struct 
>> at91mci_host *host, struct mmc_data
>>                      for (index = 0; index < (amount / 4); index++)
>>                              *dmabuf++ = swab32(sgbuffer[index]);
>>              } else {
>> -                    memcpy(dmabuf, sgbuffer, amount);
>> -                    dmabuf += amount;
>> +                    char *tmpv = (char *)dmabuf;
>> +                    memcpy(tmpv, sgbuffer, amount);
>> +                    tmpv += amount;
>> +                    dmabuf = (unsigned *)tmpv;

I see this is already applied, but why all the type trickery here? Why
not just:

        memcpy(dmabuf, sgbuffer, amount);
        dmabuf += amount / sizeof(dmabuf);

>>              }
>>  
>> -            kunmap_atomic(sgbuffer, KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ);
>> +            kunmap_atomic(((void *)sgbuffer)-sg->offset, KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ);

void * arithmetic is a gcc-ism. Isn't it better to cast to char *, since
the meaning will be a bit more clear.

~Ryan

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