Re: [PATCH] iio: proximity: aw96103: fix firmware read on big-endian

[David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>]

On 3/16/26 5:22 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 06:20:12PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
>> Use get_unaligned_le32() instead of casting to int * to make sure that
>> reading a 32-bit int value from the firmware binary works correctly on
>> big-endian architectures.
> 
> ...
> 
>>  	bin->valid_data_addr = AW96103_BIN_VALID_DATA_OFFSET;
>>  	bin->valid_data_len =
>> -		*(unsigned int *)(bin->data + AW96103_BIN_DATA_LEN_OFFSET) -
>> +		get_unaligned_le32(bin->data + AW96103_BIN_DATA_LEN_OFFSET) -
>>  		AW96103_BIN_DATA_REG_NUM_SIZE;
>>  	memcpy(bin->chip_type, bin->data + AW96103_BIN_CHIP_TYPE_OFFSET,
>>  	       AW96103_BIN_CHIP_TYPE_SIZE);
> 
> I gave you a tag, but I have a question here:
> Hmm... memcpy() happens to work probably due to keeping LE as LE and chip_type
> being a byte stream itself, if AW96103_BIN_CHIP_TYPE_SIZE is bigger than a
> byte. Otherwise it may suffer from the same issue, no?
> 

I checked how bin->chip_type is used and it is a string, so not affected.