Re: [PATCH 1/8] wifi: wilc1000: fix incorrect type assignment sparse warning

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

<Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com> writes:

> Hi Kalle,
>
> On 27/07/22 18:30, Kalle Valo wrote:
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>> <Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com> writes:
>>
>>> From: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
>>>
>>> Sparse reported below warning
>>>>> drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c:361:42: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) @@     expected unsigned int key_mgmt_suite @@     got restricted __be32 [usertype] @@
>>> 'key_mgmt_suite' value is expected in big-endian format. After receiving
>>> mgmt_suite value from wpa_s convert to cpu endianness because the same
>>> value is return back using cfg80211_external_auth_request(). Use
>>> be32_to_cpu() conversion API to avoid the sparse warning.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>>> Fixes: c5b331d4f550fb78 ("wifi: wilc1000: add WPA3 SAE support")
>>> Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c | 2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
>>> index 5c2c7f1dbffd..19862d932f1f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
>>> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static int connect(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
>>>                        memcpy(vif->auth.ssid.ssid, sme->ssid, sme->ssid_len);
>>>                        vif->auth.ssid.ssid_len = sme->ssid_len;
>>>                }
>>> -             vif->auth.key_mgmt_suite = cpu_to_be32(sme->crypto.akm_suites[0]);
>>> +             vif->auth.key_mgmt_suite = be32_to_cpu((__force __be32)sme->crypto.akm_suites[0]);
>> No time to investigate in detail but the cast is just ugly. Isn't there
>> a better way to fix this?
>
>
> I think, there is an another way to handle this issue. 'key_mgmt_suite' 
> element in 'cfg80211_external_auth_params' struct should be converted to 
> '__be32' type(like below code snippet) because wpa_s expects the value 
> in big-endian format . After this change, the type case can be avoided. 
> Though I am not sure if these changes can have impact on other driver.
>
>
> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> index cc8a9880b9d6..92df70afe445 100644
> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> @@ -3509,7 +3509,7 @@ struct cfg80211_external_auth_params {
>          enum nl80211_external_auth_action action;
>          u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2);
>          struct cfg80211_ssid ssid;
> -       unsigned int key_mgmt_suite;
> +       __be32 key_mgmt_suite;
>          u16 status;
>          const u8 *pmkid;
>   };

So just that I understand correctly: struct
cfg80211_crypto_settings::akm_suites is in cpu endian but struct struct
cfg80211_external_auth_params::key_mgmt_suite is in big endian? But your
original patch uses be32_to_cpu() so I must be confused.

It would be good to document this in cfg80211.h, the documentation there
doesn't mention anything about endian.

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