Change the type of partitionSizeTmp from u32 to __be32 to suppress the sparse warning: warning: cast to restricted __be32 Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c index 66307783c73c..73f036bed128 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c @@ -721,7 +721,8 @@ static int pm8001_update_flash(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha) DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(completion); u8 *ioctlbuffer; struct fw_control_info *fwControl; - u32 partitionSize, partitionSizeTmp; + __be32 partitionSizeTmp; + u32 partitionSize; u32 loopNumber, loopcount; struct pm8001_fw_image_header *image_hdr; u32 sizeRead = 0; @@ -742,7 +743,7 @@ static int pm8001_update_flash(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha) image_hdr = (struct pm8001_fw_image_header *)pm8001_ha->fw_image->data; while (sizeRead < pm8001_ha->fw_image->size) { partitionSizeTmp = - *(u32 *)((u8 *)&image_hdr->image_length + sizeRead); + *(__be32 *)((u8 *)&image_hdr->image_length + sizeRead); partitionSize = be32_to_cpu(partitionSizeTmp); loopcount = DIV_ROUND_UP(partitionSize + HEADER_LEN, IOCTL_BUF_SIZE); -- 2.34.1