Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Nov 16 2015 - 13:35:12 EST


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:20:31PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:49:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > It turns out that the commit that introduced this used the cpu_to_le32()
> > incorrectly on an 8-bit field, which results in the sense_len to always
> > be set to zero, as the SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE value gets moved to upper
> > byte of the 32-bit intermediate.
>
> More people need to run the sparse checker with -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ and
> have proper endian annotations?

Ho about enabling __CHECK_ENDIAN__ by default when running sparse at
least?
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