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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Colin Ian King" <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	"Hauke Mehrtens" <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcma: fix incorrect update of BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIO_DATA
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:38:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1aa1f6f-d293-c2cd-d1fc-a6b10d49a1bb@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31258833-174f-080b-489e-85d3556bd1de@canonical.com>

On 8/22/19 11:11 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 22/08/2019 17:03, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 8/22/19 8:35 AM, Colin King wrote:
>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>>
>>> An earlier commit re-worked the setting of the bitmask and is now
>>> assigning v with some bit flags rather than bitwise or-ing them
>>> into v, consequently the earlier bit-settings of v are being lost.
>>> Fix this by replacing an assignment with the bitwise or instead.
>>>
>>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
>>> Fixes: 2be25cac8402 ("bcma: add constants for PCI and use them")
>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/bcma/driver_pci.c | 2 +-
>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/bcma/driver_pci.c b/drivers/bcma/driver_pci.c
>>> index f499a469e66d..d219ee947c07 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/bcma/driver_pci.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/bcma/driver_pci.c
>>> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static u16 bcma_pcie_mdio_read(struct bcma_drv_pci
>>> *pc, u16 device, u8 address)
>>>            v |= (address << BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_REGADDR_SHF_OLD);
>>>        }
>>>    -    v = BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_START;
>>> +    v |= BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_START;
>>>        v |= BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_READ;
>>>        v |= BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_TA;
>>
>> I'm not sure the "Fixes" attribute is correct.
>>
>> The changes for this section in commit 2be25cac8402 are
>>
>> -       v = (1 << 30); /* Start of Transaction */
>> -       v |= (1 << 28); /* Write Transaction */
>> -       v |= (1 << 17); /* Turnaround */
>> -       v |= (0x1F << 18);
>> +       v = BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_START;
>> +       v |= BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_WRITE;
>> +       v |= (BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_DEV_ADDR <<
>> +             BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_DEVADDR_SHF);
>> +       v |= (BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_BLK_ADDR <<
>> +             BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_REGADDR_SHF);
>> +       v |= BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIODATA_TA;
>>
>> Because the code has done quite a bit of work on v just above this
>> section, I agree that this is likely an error, but that error happened
>> in an earlier commit. Thus 2be25cac8402 did not introduce the error,
>> merely copied it.
> 
> Ugh, this goes back further. I didn't spot that. I'm less confident of
> what the correct settings should be now.
> 
>>
>> Has this change been tested?
> 
> Afraid not, I don't have the H/W.

I admit that I looked at this only because I found it hard to believe that the 
collective wisdom of the list would have missed the usage of "=" instead of 
"|=". At least that test was passed. :)

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22 13:35 [PATCH] bcma: fix incorrect update of BCMA_CORE_PCI_MDIO_DATA Colin King
2019-08-22 16:03 ` Larry Finger
2019-08-22 16:11   ` Colin Ian King
2019-08-22 16:38     ` Larry Finger [this message]
2019-08-27  7:58       ` Colin Ian King
2019-08-25 19:59     ` Rafał Miłecki
2019-08-22 16:55 ` Johannes Berg

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