RE: [PATCH V2] staging: r8188eu: Fix sparse endianness warnings

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Charlie Sands
> Sent: 30 March 2022 19:53
> 
> This patch fixes sparse warnings about the endianness of different
> pieces of data in the driver.
> 
> Fixes: 15865124feed ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new core dir for
> RTL8188eu driver")
> Signed-off-by: Charlie Sands <sandsch@northvilleschools.net>
> ---
> V2: Added the "fixes" line to the commit at the request of Dan Carpenter.
> 
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c | 12 +++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c
> index d68611ef22f8..ed41c4e30262 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_br_ext.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int __nat25_add_pppoe_tag(struct sk_buff *skb, struct pppoe_tag *tag)
>  	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)
>  		return -1;
> 
> @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ int nat25_db_handle(struct adapter *priv, struct sk_buff *skb, int method)
>  		/*                Handle PPPoE frame                 */
>  		/*---------------------------------------------------*/
>  		struct pppoe_hdr *ph = (struct pppoe_hdr *)(skb->data + ETH_HLEN);
> -		unsigned short *pMagic;
> +		__be16 *pMagic;
> 
>  		switch (method) {
>  		case NAT25_CHECK:
> @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ int nat25_db_handle(struct adapter *priv, struct sk_buff *skb, int method)
>  						tag->tag_len =
> htons(MAGIC_CODE_LEN+RTL_RELAY_TAG_LEN+old_tag_len);
> 
>  						/*  insert the magic_code+client mac in relay tag */
> -						pMagic = (unsigned short *)tag->tag_data;
> +						pMagic = (__be16 *)tag->tag_data;
>  						*pMagic = htons(MAGIC_CODE);
                                              ^ cpu_to_be32()
>  						memcpy(tag->tag_data+MAGIC_CODE_LEN, skb->data+ETH_ALEN,
> ETH_ALEN);
> 
> @@ -557,9 +557,11 @@ int nat25_db_handle(struct adapter *priv, struct sk_buff *skb, int method)
>  						struct icmp6hdr  *hdr = (struct icmp6hdr *)(skb->data + ETH_HLEN +
> sizeof(*iph));
>  						hdr->icmp6_cksum = 0;
>  						hdr->icmp6_cksum = csum_ipv6_magic(&iph->saddr, &iph->daddr,
> -										iph->payload_len,
> +										be16_to_cpu(iph->payload_len),
>  										IPPROTO_ICMPV6,
> -										csum_partial((__u8 *)hdr, iph-
> >payload_len, 0));
> +										csum_partial((__u8 *)hdr,
> +										be16_to_cpu(iph->payload_len),
> +										0));

That line continuation is horrid.
netdev probably wants the continuation under the (.
But it might be best to assign the result of csum_partial()
to a variable.

	David

>  					}
>  				}
>  			}
> --
> 2.35.1

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