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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
Also in: linux-devicetree, lkml

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
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