Re: [PATCH net v5 5/5] net: macb: avoid dealing with endianness in macb_set_hwaddr()
From: Karumanchi, Vineeth <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-11 03:13:46
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Hi Theo, On 9/10/2025 9:45 PM, Théo Lebrun wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
bp->dev->dev_addr is of type `unsigned char *`. Casting it to a u32 pointer and dereferencing implies dealing manually with endianness, which is error-prone. Replace by calls to get_unaligned_le32|le16() helpers. This was found using sparse: ⟩ make C=2 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.o warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) expected unsigned int [usertype] bottom got restricted __le32 [usertype] warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) expected unsigned short [usertype] top got restricted __le16 [usertype] ... Reviewed-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c index fc082a7a5a313be3d58a008533c3815cb1b1639a..c16d60048185b4cb473ddfcf4633fa2f6dea20cc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c@@ -271,12 +271,10 @@ static bool hw_is_gem(void __iomem *addr, bool native_io) static void macb_set_hwaddr(struct macb *bp) { - u32 bottom; - u16 top; + u32 bottom = get_unaligned_le32(bp->dev->dev_addr); + u16 top = get_unaligned_le16(bp->dev->dev_addr + 4);
please change the order as per reverse xmas tree.
- bottom = cpu_to_le32(*((u32 *)bp->dev->dev_addr));
macb_or_gem_writel(bp, SA1B, bottom);
- top = cpu_to_le16(*((u16 *)(bp->dev->dev_addr + 4)));
macb_or_gem_writel(bp, SA1T, top);
if (gem_has_ptp(bp)) {-- 🙏 Vineeth