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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 1/3] riscv: Avoid unaligned access when relocating modules
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 05:35:57PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 31 2023, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
>
> >> +static int riscv_insn_rmw(void *location, u32 keep, u32 set)
> >> +{
> >> + u16 *parcel = location;
> >> + u32 insn = (u32)le16_to_cpu(parcel[0]) | (u32)le16_to_cpu(parcel[1]) << 16;
> >> +
> >> + insn &= keep;
> >> + insn |= set;
> >> +
> >> + parcel[0] = cpu_to_le32(insn);
> >
> > Why cpu_to_le32(insn)? Unless I've misunderstood something downcasting unsigned
> > to unsigned values in C (eg. from u32 to u16) is defined to always discard the
> > most signifcant bits, so cpu_to_le16(insn) should be fine.
>
> cpu_to_le32(insn) can't be right here anyway, since it also swaps the
> two u16 halves and would be the same as cpu_to_le16(insn >> 16) on big
> endian.

Yes, not sure why I did that... I will fix that up.

- Charlie

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