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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 30/47] tty: nozomi: avoid a harmless gcc warning
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:32:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170428083039.572219809@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170428083038.327543269@linuxfoundation.org>

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

commit a4f642a8a3c2838ad09fe8313d45db46600e1478 upstream.

The nozomi wireless data driver has its own helper function to
transfer data from a FIFO, doing an extra byte swap on big-endian
architectures, presumably to bring the data back into byte-serial
order after readw() or readl() perform their implicit byteswap.

This helper function is used in the receive_data() function to
first read the length into a 32-bit variable, which causes
a compile-time warning:

drivers/tty/nozomi.c: In function 'receive_data':
drivers/tty/nozomi.c:857:9: warning: 'size' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

The problem is that gcc is unsure whether the data was actually
read or not. We know that it is at this point, so we can replace
it with a single readl() to shut up that warning.

I am leaving the byteswap in there, to preserve the existing
behavior, even though this seems fishy: Reading the length of
the data into a cpu-endian variable should normally not use
a second byteswap on big-endian systems, unless the hardware
is aware of the CPU endianess.

There appears to be a lot more confusion about endianess in this
driver, so it probably has not worked on big-endian systems in
a long time, if ever, and I have no way to test it. It's well
possible that this driver has not been used by anyone in a while,
the last patch that looks like it was tested on the hardware is
from 2008.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/tty/nozomi.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/nozomi.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/nozomi.c
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ static int receive_data(enum port_type i
 	struct tty_struct *tty = tty_port_tty_get(&port->port);
 	int i, ret;
 
-	read_mem32((u32 *) &size, addr, 4);
+	size = __le32_to_cpu(readl(addr));
 	/*  DBG1( "%d bytes port: %d", size, index); */
 
 	if (tty && test_bit(TTY_THROTTLED, &tty->flags)) {

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-28  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-28  8:32 [PATCH 3.18 00/47] 3.18.51-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 01/47] KEYS: Disallow keyrings beginning with . to be joined as session keyrings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 02/47] KEYS: Change the name of the dead type to ".dead" to prevent user access Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 03/47] KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 04/47] tracing: Allocate the snapshot buffer before enabling probe Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 05/47] ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when empty Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 06/47] cifs: Do not send echoes before Negotiate is complete Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 07/47] CIFS: remove bad_network_name flag Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 08/47] s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 09/47] Input: elantech - add Fujitsu Lifebook E547 to force crc_enabled Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 10/47] ACPI / power: Avoid maybe-uninitialized warning Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 11/47] mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: increase the pad I/O drive strength for DDR50 card Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 12/47] ubi/upd: Always flush after prepared for an update Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 13/47] powerpc/kprobe: Fix oops when kprobed on stdu instruction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 14/47] x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 when accessed with legacy MSRs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 15/47] kvm: arm/arm64: Fix locking for kvm_free_stage2_pgd Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 16/47] arm64: avoid returning from bad_mode Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 17/47] clk: at91: usb: fix determine_rate prototype again Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 18/47] gadgetfs: fix uninitialized variable in error handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 19/47] dm bufio: hide bogus warning Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 20/47] MIPS: Fix the build on jz4740 after removing the custom gpio.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 21/47] perf: Avoid horrible stack usage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 22/47] fs/nfs: fix new compiler warning about boolean in switch Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 23/47] iommu/vt-d: Remove unused variable Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 24/47] mm/init: fix zone boundary creation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 25/47] net: ti: cpmac: Fix compiler warning due to type confusion Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 26/47] MIPS: asm: compiler: Add new macros to set ISA and arch asm annotations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 27/47] nfsd: work around a gcc-5.1 warning Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 29/47] brcmfmac: avoid " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 31/47] net: vxge: avoid unused function warnings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 33/47] hostap: avoid uninitialized variable use in hfa384x_get_rid Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 34/47] MIPS: MSP71xx: remove odd locking in PCI config space access code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 35/47] net: tulip: turn compile-time warning into dev_warn() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 37/47] gfs2: avoid uninitialized variable warning Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 39/47] ARM: 8296/1: cache-l2x0: clean up aurora cache handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 40/47] aic94xx: Skip reading user settings if flash is not found Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 41/47] MIPS: ralink: Cosmetic change to prom_init() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 42/47] kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 43/47] ARM: 8383/1: nommu: avoid deprecated source register on mov Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 44/47] [media] xc2028: avoid use after free Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 45/47] vfio/pci: Fix integer overflows, bitmask check Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:32 ` [PATCH 3.18 46/47] staging/android/ion : fix a race condition in the ion driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28  8:33 ` [PATCH 3.18 47/47] ping: implement proper locking Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 18:12 ` [PATCH 3.18 00/47] 3.18.51-stable review Guenter Roeck
2017-04-28 19:19 ` Shuah Khan

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