Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] soc: qcom: smem: Use le32_to_cpu for partition size comparison

[Chris Lew <clew@codeaurora.org>]

On 9/15/2017 11:39 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 09/14, Chris Lew wrote:
>> Endianness can vary in the system, add le32_to_cpu when comparing
>> size values from smem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Lew <clew@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - New change
>>
>>   drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c
>> index c28275be0038..db04c45d4132 100644
>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c
>> @@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ static int qcom_smem_enumerate_partitions(struct qcom_smem *smem,
>>   			return -EINVAL;
>>   		}
>>   
>> -		if (header->size != entry->size) {
>> +		if (le32_to_cpu(header->size) != le32_to_cpu(entry->size)) {
> 
> Also, it doesn't really matter. We're comparing two numbers with
> the same endianness, so comparing them for equality before or
> after swapping makes no difference. Sparse also (correctly)
> doesn't complain here, because adding the conversion is not
> necessary. Drop this patch?
> 

Hey Bjorn, should we remove this patch? You had flagged this comparison 
in the first version of the global partition changes.

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