Re: [PATCH v2] staging: wilc1000: Fix sparse warnings incorrect type assignment

[Andrea Ghittino]

Thank you for your time
regard,

andrea

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think this change is buggy.
>
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:36:53PM +0100, Andrea Ghittino wrote:
>> Fixed sparse warnings related to the conversion of le16 and le32 to u16 and u32, during the update of internal structures
>>
>> Fixed sparse warnings:
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2011:52: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2011:52:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_ext_params
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2011:52:    got restricted __le16 const [usertype] extended_ht_cap_info
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2012:51: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2012:51:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_tx_bf_cap
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2012:51:    got restricted __le32 const [usertype] tx_BF_cap_info
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2078:51: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2078:51:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_capa_info
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2078:51:    got restricted __le16 const [usertype] cap_info
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2083:52: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2083:52:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_ext_params
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2083:52:    got restricted __le16 const [usertype] extended_ht_cap_info
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2084:51: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2084:51:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_tx_bf_cap
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2084:51:    got restricted __le32 const [usertype] tx_BF_cap_info
>>
>
> What I want in a changelog is:  "We're copying data that's little endian
> from (some place) to where ever and then we (whatever) do math using the
> variable so it needs to be CPU endian.  Presumably this wasn't caught
> in testing because it was only used on x86 or other little endian
> systems."
>
> In this case we're copying little endian data and then sending it
> directly back to some place which requires little endian data so
> converting it is a bug.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter