Converting from bus to host endiannes was done using the same variable which makes sparse unhappy as it can not verify the endiannes handling properly. To allow sparse to verify endiannes handling a __le32 is introduced. This patch does not actually change the code logic while the binary does change due to limit on instruction re-ordering induced by the additional constraint. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> --- Problem located by an experimental coccinelle script to locate patters that make sparse unhappy (false positives): sparse was complaining about: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c:596:23: warning: cast to restricted __le32 Note that the binary does change in this case - from inspection of the .lst files it seems that the introduction of the __le32 limits the re-ordering options for the compiler so one instruction position changed (ldr r1, [sp, #4]) but from my understanding that does not change the program logic here. Patch was compile-tested with: tegra_defconfig (implies I2C_TEGRA=y) Patch is against 5.1 (localversion-next is next-20190508) drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c index ebaa78d..cbaddcc 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c @@ -543,18 +543,19 @@ static int tegra_i2c_empty_rx_fifo(struct tegra_i2c_dev *i2c_dev) static int tegra_i2c_fill_tx_fifo(struct tegra_i2c_dev *i2c_dev) { u32 val; + __le32 busval; int tx_fifo_avail; u8 *buf = i2c_dev->msg_buf; size_t buf_remaining = i2c_dev->msg_buf_remaining; int words_to_transfer; if (i2c_dev->hw->has_mst_fifo) { - val = i2c_readl(i2c_dev, I2C_MST_FIFO_STATUS); - tx_fifo_avail = (val & I2C_MST_FIFO_STATUS_TX_MASK) >> + busval = i2c_readl(i2c_dev, I2C_MST_FIFO_STATUS); + tx_fifo_avail = (busval & I2C_MST_FIFO_STATUS_TX_MASK) >> I2C_MST_FIFO_STATUS_TX_SHIFT; } else { - val = i2c_readl(i2c_dev, I2C_FIFO_STATUS); - tx_fifo_avail = (val & I2C_FIFO_STATUS_TX_MASK) >> + busval = i2c_readl(i2c_dev, I2C_FIFO_STATUS); + tx_fifo_avail = (busval & I2C_FIFO_STATUS_TX_MASK) >> I2C_FIFO_STATUS_TX_SHIFT; } @@ -592,8 +593,8 @@ static int tegra_i2c_fill_tx_fifo(struct tegra_i2c_dev *i2c_dev) */ if (tx_fifo_avail > 0 && buf_remaining > 0) { BUG_ON(buf_remaining > 3); - memcpy(&val, buf, buf_remaining); - val = le32_to_cpu(val); + memcpy(&busval, buf, buf_remaining); + val = le32_to_cpu(busval); /* Again update before writing to FIFO to make sure isr sees. */ i2c_dev->msg_buf_remaining = 0; -- 2.1.4