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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Lachlan Hodges <lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com>
Cc: Dan Callaghan <dan.callaghan@morsemicro.com>,
	Arien Judge <arien.judge@morsemicro.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Chetan Mistry <chetan.mistry@morsemicro.com>,
	Sahand Maleki <sahand.maleki@morsemicro.com>,
	Simon Wadsworth <simon@morsemicro.com>,
	James Herbert <james.herbert@morsemicro.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH next] wifi: mm81x: fix type bugs handling sdio_readl/writel()
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:30:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aoa7Hj1W7ETOrOzO@stanley.mountain> (raw)

The sdio_readl() and sdio_writel() functions, instead of returning kernel
error codes, instead stores the error codes in a parameter.  These caller
functions pass should pass an int pointer to store the error code but
instead pass a signed long.

This will not work on big endian systems.  On little endian systems
passing a ssize_t means negative error codes are converted to positive
values near UINT_MAX.  This doesn't cause a problem at runtime because
in mm81x_sdio_reg32_write() the error codes are discarded and we always
return -EIO.  In mm81x_sdio_reg32_read() the high bits are truncated
away so the positive value is re-converted back to negative and the
code works as intended.

Either way, passing an int is the correct thing and is a cleanup.

Fixes: b1906cea00b0 ("wifi: mm81x: add mm81x Wi-Fi HaLow driver")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/morsemicro/mm81x/sdio.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/morsemicro/mm81x/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/morsemicro/mm81x/sdio.c
index 96fce187dd35..65277399bf18 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/morsemicro/mm81x/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/morsemicro/mm81x/sdio.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static int mm81x_sdio_dm_read(struct mm81x *mors, u32 address, u8 *data,
 
 static int mm81x_sdio_reg32_write(struct mm81x *mors, u32 address, u32 val)
 {
-	ssize_t ret = 0;
+	int ret = 0;
 	u32 original_address = address;
 	struct mm81x_sdio *sdio = (struct mm81x_sdio *)mors->drv_priv;
 	struct sdio_func *func1 = sdio->func->card->sdio_func[0];
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static int mm81x_sdio_reg32_write(struct mm81x *mors, u32 address, u32 val)
 
 	address &= 0x0000FFFF;
 	sdio_writel(func1, (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(val),
-		    (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(address), (int *)&ret);
+		    (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(address), &ret);
 	if (ret)
 		goto error;
 
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static int mm81x_sdio_reg32_write(struct mm81x *mors, u32 address, u32 val)
 static int mm81x_sdio_reg32_read(struct mm81x *mors, u32 address, u32 *val)
 {
 	u32 value;
-	ssize_t ret = 0;
+	int ret = 0;
 	struct mm81x_sdio *sdio = (struct mm81x_sdio *)mors->drv_priv;
 	struct sdio_func *func1 = sdio->func->card->sdio_func[0];
 
@@ -419,8 +419,7 @@ static int mm81x_sdio_reg32_read(struct mm81x *mors, u32 address, u32 *val)
 					 MM81X_CONFIG_ACCESS_4BYTE);
 
 	address &= 0x0000FFFF;
-	value = sdio_readl(func1, (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(address),
-			   (int *)&ret);
+	value = sdio_readl(func1, (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(address), &ret);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-20  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-20  8:30 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2026-08-21 11:15 ` AW: [PATCH next] wifi: mm81x: fix type bugs handling sdio_readl/writel() Walter Harms

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