RE: [PATCH v4 16/18] staging: r8188eu: hal: Clean up rtw_read*() and rtw_write*()

[David Laight]

From: Fabio M. De Francesco
> Sent: 13 September 2021 19:10
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> +	u16 address = (u16)(addr & 0xffff);
> 
> -	usbctrl_vendorreq(pintfhdl, wvalue, &data, 1, REALTEK_USB_VENQT_READ);
> +	usbctrl_vendorreq(intfhdl, address, &data, 1, REALTEK_USB_VENQT_READ);

You really don't need the (u16) cast or the '& 0xffff'.
The assignment will just truncate.

But do you even need to truncate the value at all?
It rather depends on what happens inside usbctrl_vendorreq()
and whether the parameter to this code is already constrained.

I think modern gcc are better, but I have seen code where
the '& 0xffff' masked the value, then the (u16) masked the
value and finally the low 16 bits were written into a structure.

(Oh the other patches are now readable - a lot of junk down the pan.)

	David

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