Re: [PATCH] staging: typec: Fix type mismatch found with sparse

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On 07/05/2017 07:00 AM, Thomas Gardner wrote:
The warning below is resolved by casting the LHS to __le32.

typec/tcpm.c:1019:49: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
typec/tcpm.c:1019:49:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident>
typec/tcpm.c:1019:49:    got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gardner <tmg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/staging/typec/tcpm.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/typec/tcpm.c b/drivers/staging/typec/tcpm.c
index 20eb4ebcf8c3..7699bb27a4d9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/typec/tcpm.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/typec/tcpm.c
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ static int tcpm_pd_svdm(struct tcpm_port *port, const __le32 *payload, int cnt,
  			if (port->data_role == TYPEC_DEVICE &&
  			    port->nr_snk_vdo) {
  				for (i = 0; i <  port->nr_snk_vdo; i++)
-					response[i + 1]
+					((__le32 *)response)[i + 1]
  						= cpu_to_le32(port->snk_vdo[i]);
  				rlen = port->nr_snk_vdo + 1;
  			}

I think this would just hide a number of at least potential endianness issues
in the driver. response[] should be of type __le32 instead, with everything
that comes with it.

Which makes me wonder, since I don't see any of those warnings - what does it take
to see them ?

Guenter
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