4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3512a1ad56174308a9fd3e10f4b1e3e152e9ec01 ] Failure to mark this pointer as __le32 causes checkers like sparse to complain: net/qrtr/qrtr.c:274:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) net/qrtr/qrtr.c:274:16: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:274:16: got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:275:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) net/qrtr/qrtr.c:275:16: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:275:16: got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:276:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) net/qrtr/qrtr.c:276:16: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:276:16: got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident> Silence it. Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/qrtr/qrtr.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/qrtr/qrtr.c +++ b/net/qrtr/qrtr.c @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *qrtr_alloc_resume const int pkt_len = 20; struct qrtr_hdr *hdr; struct sk_buff *skb; - u32 *buf; + __le32 *buf; skb = alloc_skb(QRTR_HDR_SIZE + pkt_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!skb) @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *qrtr_alloc_resume hdr->dst_node_id = cpu_to_le32(dst_node); hdr->dst_port_id = cpu_to_le32(QRTR_PORT_CTRL); - buf = (u32 *)skb_put(skb, pkt_len); + buf = (__le32 *)skb_put(skb, pkt_len); memset(buf, 0, pkt_len); buf[0] = cpu_to_le32(QRTR_TYPE_RESUME_TX); buf[1] = cpu_to_le32(src_node);