linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds

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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:35:01 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:20:31PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:49:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > It turns out that the commit that introduced this used the cpu_to_le32()
> > incorrectly on an 8-bit field, which results in the sense_len to always
> > be set to zero, as the SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE value gets moved to upper
> > byte of the 32-bit intermediate.
> 
> More people need to run the sparse checker with -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ and
> have proper endian annotations?

Ho about enabling __CHECK_ENDIAN__ by default when running sparse at
least?
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