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SubjectRe: [PATCH] rds: ib: force endiannes annotation
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On 29/04/2019 07:09, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> diff --git a/net/rds/ib_recv.c b/net/rds/ib_recv.c
> index 7055985..a070a2d 100644
> --- a/net/rds/ib_recv.c
> +++ b/net/rds/ib_recv.c
> @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ static void rds_ib_cong_recv(struct rds_connection *conn,
> }
>
> /* the congestion map is in little endian order */
> - uncongested = le64_to_cpu(uncongested);
> + uncongested = le64_to_cpu((__force __le64)uncongested);
>
> rds_cong_map_updated(map, uncongested);
> }
Again, a __force cast doesn't seem necessary here.  It looks like the
 code is just using the wrong types; if all of src, dst and uncongested
 were __le64 instead of uint64_t, and the last two lines replaced with
 rds_cong_map_updated(map, le64_to_cpu(uncongested)); then the semantics
 would be kept with neither sparse errors nor __force.

__force is almost never necessary and mostly just masks other bugs or
 endianness confusion in the surrounding code.  Instead of adding a
 __force, either fix the code to be sparse-clean or leave the sparse
 warning in place so that future developers know there's something not
 right.

-Ed

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