Re: cifs: suggestions for a few more sparse warnings

From: Steve French
Date: Wed Jul 23 2008 - 21:40:25 EST


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Harvey Harrison
<harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's a patch for some of the other warnings, but the cifsacl.c bit
> needs a comment I think.
>
> Harvey
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> index 34902cf..70f0ef5 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> @@ -169,8 +169,7 @@ static void copy_sec_desc(const struct cifs_ntsd *pntsd,
> for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
> ngroup_sid_ptr->authority[i] = group_sid_ptr->authority[i];
> for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
> - ngroup_sid_ptr->sub_auth[i] =
> - cpu_to_le32(group_sid_ptr->sub_auth[i]);
> + cpu_to_le32s(&group_sid_ptr->sub_auth[i]);
>
> return;
> }

No - the cifsacl one looks like just a bug - there should not be an
endian conversion here.

Shirish,
Would you verify?

--
Thanks,

Steve
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