Re: [PATCH 2/6] iio: adc: ti-adc128s052: Fix ADC value on BE systems

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Mon Mar 31 2025 - 07:11:44 EST


On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:02:55 +0300
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ADCs supported by the ti-adc128s052 driver do return the ADC data in 16
> bits using big-endian format. The driver does unconditionally swap the
> bytes. This leads to wrong values being reported to users on big endian
> systems.
>
> Fix this by using the be16_to_cpu() instead of doing unconditional byte
> swapping.

It's not doing unconditional byte swap that I can see. The
adc->buffer[0] << 8 | adc->buffer[1]
will work on big or little endian systems as we are explicitly saying
which byte represents higher bit values in a 16 bit output so on little
endian it's a byte swap, but on big endian it's a noop (the compiler might
noticed that and replace this code sequence with an assignment)

Good cleanup, but not a fix as such unless I'm missing something.
>
> Fixes: 913b86468674 ("iio: adc: Add TI ADC128S052")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I have no big endian machines on my hands to test this. Problem was
> spotted by reading the code, which leaves some room for errors.
> Careful reviewing is appreciated!
> ---
> drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc128s052.c | 13 +++++++------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc128s052.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc128s052.c
> index a456ea78462f..d1e31122ea0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc128s052.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc128s052.c
> @@ -28,19 +28,20 @@ struct adc128 {
> struct regulator *reg;
> struct mutex lock;
>
> - u8 buffer[2] __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN);
> + __be16 buffer __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN);
> };
>
> static int adc128_adc_conversion(struct adc128 *adc, u8 channel)
> {
> int ret;
> + char *msg = (char *)&adc->buffer;
>
> - mutex_lock(&adc->lock);
> + msg[0] = channel << 3;
> + msg[1] = 0;

Given you are writing shared state why move this out of the lock?
Whilst here maybe using guard() would clean this driver up a little.


Use a separate buffer (or a union) so we can avoid the casting here

>
> - adc->buffer[0] = channel << 3;
> - adc->buffer[1] = 0;
> + mutex_lock(&adc->lock);
>
> - ret = spi_write(adc->spi, &adc->buffer, 2);
> + ret = spi_write(adc->spi, msg, 2);

Given you are tidying this up, lets make the source of that size value obvious.

sizeof(adc->buffer)

> if (ret < 0) {
> mutex_unlock(&adc->lock);
> return ret;
> @@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ static int adc128_adc_conversion(struct adc128 *adc, u8 channel)
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
>
> - return ((adc->buffer[0] << 8 | adc->buffer[1]) & 0xFFF);
> + return be16_to_cpu(adc->buffer) & 0xFFF;
> }
>
> static int adc128_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,