Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: dsa: qca8k: fix regmap bulk read/write methods on big endian systems

[Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 12:46:11PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> Commit c766e077d927 ("net: dsa: qca8k: convert to regmap read/write
> API") introduced bulk read/write methods to qca8k's regmap.
> 
> The regmap bulk read/write methods get the register address in a buffer
> passed as a void pointer parameter (the same buffer contains also the
> read/written values). The register address occupies only as many bytes
> as it requires at the beginning of this buffer. For example if the
> .reg_bits member in regmap_config is 16 (as is the case for this
> driver), the register address occupies only the first 2 bytes in this
> buffer, so it can be cast to u16.
> 
> But the original commit implementing these bulk read/write methods cast
> the buffer to u32:
>   u32 reg = *(u32 *)reg_buf & U16_MAX;
> taking the first 4 bytes. This works on little endian systems where the
> first 2 bytes of the buffer correnspond to the low 16-bits, but it
> obviously cannot work on big endian systems.
> 
> Fix this by casting the beginning of the buffer to u16 as
>    u32 reg = *(u16 *)reg_buf;
> 
> Fixes: c766e077d927 ("net: dsa: qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API")
> Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>

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