On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 08:14:52PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > Fix sparse warnings of different base types in assignments > and in passing function parameters. This patch fixes some endian bugs but it's not mentioned at all in the commit message. Did you send to the correct patch? > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c > index e00302137a60..31ca2e548555 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c > @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static inline int __nat25_add_pppoe_tag(struct sk_buff *skb, struct pppoe_tag *t > struct pppoe_hdr *ph = (struct pppoe_hdr *)(skb->data + ETH_HLEN); > int data_len; > > - data_len = tag->tag_len + TAG_HDR_LEN; > + data_len = be16_to_cpu(tag->tag_len) + TAG_HDR_LEN; > if (skb_tailroom(skb) < data_len) { > _DEBUG_ERR("skb_tailroom() failed in add SID tag!\n"); > return -1; > @@ -134,42 +134,68 @@ static inline void __nat25_generate_ipv4_network_addr(unsigned char *networkAddr > } > > static inline void __nat25_generate_ipx_network_addr_with_node(unsigned char *networkAddr, > - unsigned int *ipxNetAddr, unsigned char *ipxNodeAddr) > + __be32 *ipxNetAddr, unsigned char *ipxNodeAddr) > { > + union { > + unsigned int f0; > + unsigned char f1[IPX_NODE_LEN]; What is going on here?? Why is f1 six bytes? > + } addr; > + > memset(networkAddr, 0, MAX_NETWORK_ADDR_LEN); > > networkAddr[0] = NAT25_IPX; > - memcpy(networkAddr+1, (unsigned char *)ipxNetAddr, 4); > + addr.f0 = be32_to_cpu(*ipxNetAddr); > + memcpy(networkAddr+1, addr.f1, 4); What's the point of a union? memcpy() doesn't care about endian anotations. > memcpy(networkAddr+5, ipxNodeAddr, 6); > } > > static inline void __nat25_generate_ipx_network_addr_with_socket(unsigned char *networkAddr, > - unsigned int *ipxNetAddr, unsigned short *ipxSocketAddr) > + __be32 *ipxNetAddr, __be16 *ipxSocketAddr) > { > + union { > + unsigned int f0; > + unsigned char f1[4]; > + } addr; > + > memset(networkAddr, 0, MAX_NETWORK_ADDR_LEN); > > networkAddr[0] = NAT25_IPX; > - memcpy(networkAddr+1, (unsigned char *)ipxNetAddr, 4); > - memcpy(networkAddr+5, (unsigned char *)ipxSocketAddr, 2); > + addr.f0 = be32_to_cpu(*ipxNetAddr); > + memcpy(networkAddr+1, addr.f1, 4); > + addr.f0 ^= addr.f0; What on earth???? > + addr.f0 = be16_to_cpu(*ipxSocketAddr); I'm so puzzled. > + memcpy(networkAddr+5, addr.f1, 2); This patch is really weird so I'm done reviewing it. regards, dan carpenter