Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/tests: Fix endian warning

["José Expósito" <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>]

Hey Michel,

Thanks for looking into this.

On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 10:22:13AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 30.06.25 11:00, José Expósito wrote:
> > When compiling with sparse enabled, this warning is thrown:
> > 
> >   warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
> >      expected restricted __le32 const [usertype] *buf
> >      got unsigned int [usertype] *[assigned] buf
> > 
> > Add a cast to fix it.
> > 
> > Fixes: 453114319699 ("drm/format-helper: Add KUnit tests for drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_xrgb2101010()")
> > Signed-off-by: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_format_helper_test.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_format_helper_test.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_format_helper_test.c
> > index 7299fa8971ce..86829e1cb7f0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_format_helper_test.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_format_helper_test.c
> > @@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ static void drm_test_fb_xrgb8888_to_xrgb2101010(struct kunit *test)
> >  		NULL : &result->dst_pitch;
> >  
> >  	drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_xrgb2101010(&dst, dst_pitch, &src, &fb, &params->clip, &fmtcnv_state);
> > -	buf = le32buf_to_cpu(test, buf, dst_size / sizeof(u32));
> > +	buf = le32buf_to_cpu(test, (__force const __le32 *)buf, dst_size / sizeof(u32));
> >  	KUNIT_EXPECT_MEMEQ(test, buf, result->expected, dst_size);
> >  
> >  	buf = dst.vaddr; /* restore original value of buf */
> 
> It might be cleaner to use two separate variables instead of using "buf" as both little endian and host byte order. (Same for patch 2)

Yes, however, the same pattern is repeated 10 times in this file.

What do you think about fixing it in a follow up? I don't think it
should block fixing the KUnit tests.

Jose

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