RE: [PATCH] net: ezchip: fix address space confusion in nps_enet.c

[Noam Camus]

>From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd@xxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 5:29 PM
>To: David S. Miller
>Cc: Noam Camus; Tal Zilcer; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PATCH] net: ezchip: fix address space confusion in nps_enet.c

>The nps_enet driver happily mixes virtual, physical and __iomem addresses, which are all different depending on the architecture and configuration.  That causes a warning when building the code on ARM with LPAE mode enabled:

>drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c: In function 'nps_enet_send_frame':
>drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c:370:13: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]

>but will also fail to work for other reasons.

>In this patch, I'm trying to change the code to use only normal kernel pointers, which I assume is what the author actually meant:

>* For reading or writing a 32-bit word that may be unaligned when
> an SKB contains unaligned data, I'm using get_unaligned/put_unaligned()
>  rather than memcpy_fromio/toio.

>* For converting a u8 pointer to a u32 pointer, I use a cast rather
>  than the incorrect virt_to_phys.

>* For copying a couple of bytes from one place to another while respecting
 > alignment, I use memcpy instead of memcpy_toio.

>Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

I have tested it on my simulator environment and driver compiles cleanly and runs happily without any problem.
Thank you.

Acked-by Noam Camus <noamc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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