linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] TPM: remove unnecessary little endian conversion

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:20:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>
To:	"Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo" <honclo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Peter Huewe <PeterHuewe@....de>,
	Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>,
	Vicky Lo <honclo2014@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joy Latten <jmlatten@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] TPM: remove unnecessary little endian
 conversion

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>

Thanks,
--Ashley

On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo wrote:

> The base pointer for the event log is allocated in the local
> kernel (in prom_instantiate_sml()), therefore it is already in
> the host's endian byte order and requires no conversion.
>
> The content of the 'basep' pointer in read_log() stores the
> base address of the log. This patch ensures that it is correctly
> implemented.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo <honclo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <jmlatten@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm_of.c |    4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_of.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_of.c
> index c002d1b..62a22ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_of.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_of.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ int read_log(struct tpm_bios_log *log)
> {
> 	struct device_node *np;
> 	const u32 *sizep;
> -	const __be64 *basep;
> +	const u64 *basep;
>
> 	if (log->bios_event_log != NULL) {
> 		pr_err("%s: ERROR - Eventlog already initialized\n", __func__);
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ int read_log(struct tpm_bios_log *log)
>
> 	log->bios_event_log_end = log->bios_event_log + *sizep;
>
> -	memcpy(log->bios_event_log, __va(be64_to_cpup(basep)), *sizep);
> +	memcpy(log->bios_event_log, __va(*basep), *sizep);
>
> 	return 0;
>
> -- 
> 1.7.1
>
>
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