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Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:00:13 -0600
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To:     Thiebaud Weksteen <tweek@google.com>
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        Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] tpm: Add explicit endianness cast
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 08:32:33AM +0000, Thiebaud Weksteen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:02 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:13:47PM +0200, Thiebaud Weksteen wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Thiebaud Weksteen <tweek@google.com>
> > >  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog_of.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog_of.c
> b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog_of.c
> > > index 96fd5646f866..d74568d58a66 100644
> > > +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog_of.c
> > > @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ int tpm_read_log_of(struct tpm_chip *chip)
> > >        * but physical tpm needs the conversion.
> > >        */
> > >       if (of_property_match_string(np, "compatible", "IBM,vtpm") < 0) {
> > > -             size = be32_to_cpup(sizep);
> > > -             base = be64_to_cpup(basep);
> > > +             size = be32_to_cpup((__be32 *)sizep);
> > > +             base = be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)basep);
> 
> > Er, no.. change the definitions of sizep and basep to be __be
> 
> > Jason
> 
> Please read the comment before the condition. sizep and
> basep may contain either little endian or big endian and this block is used
> to adjust that. Let me know if there is a better way for handling this.

Well a cast like that will throw sparse warnings, you need __force at
least

Jason