Re: I need help with a sparse warning

[Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>]

 > In file drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c, the statement
 > 
 >        priv->rx_mtu = (size_t) le16_to_cpu((__le16)bootrec->data[10]);

[I don't see this code in Linus's tree]

 > 
 > generates the sparse warning
 > 
 > .../p54common.c:185:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
 > 
 > where bootrec->data is u32, and priv->rx_mtu is u16.
 > 
 > What should be done to eliminate this warning?

the code in question looks buggy to me.  Since bootrec->data[10] is u32,
casting it to a 16-bit type is going to take a different 2 bytes out of
the 4 bytes depending on the endianness of the system the driver is
built for.  And I assume you are parsing some fixed-layout thing that
the firmware is giving you or something like that.

I would guess you want something like:

	priv->rx_mtu = le16_to_cpu(((__force __le16 *) bootrec->data)[20]);

(__force is what shuts up sparse, and as far as I can see, the size_t
cast is useless, since the result will be promoted anyway)

 - R.