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 4.4 05/17] tty: nozomi: avoid a harmless gcc warning
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:30:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170428082911.047502434@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170428082910.160564394@linuxfoundation.org>
4.4-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)) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-28 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-28 8:30 [PATCH 4.4 00/17] 4.4.65-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 01/17] tipc: make sure IPv6 header fits in skb headroom Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 02/17] tipc: make dist queue pernet Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 03/17] tipc: re-enable compensation for socket receive buffer double counting Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 04/17] tipc: correct error in node fsm Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 06/17] hostap: avoid uninitialized variable use in hfa384x_get_rid Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 07/17] gfs2: avoid uninitialized variable warning Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 08/17] tipc: fix random link resets while adding a second bearer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 09/17] tipc: fix socket timer deadlock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 10/17] mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 11/17] [media] xc2028: avoid use after free Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 12/17] netfilter: nfnetlink: correctly validate length of batch messages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 14/17] vfio/pci: Fix integer overflows, bitmask check Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 15/17] staging/android/ion : fix a race condition in the ion driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 16/17] ping: implement proper locking Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 4.4 17/17] perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. move_group race Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 18:46 ` [PATCH 4.4 00/17] 4.4.65-stable review Guenter Roeck
2017-04-29 7:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-28 19:18 ` Shuah Khan
2017-04-29 7:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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