netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] net: socionext: Add Synquacer NetSec driver

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:16:24 +0530
From:   Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     "<netdev@...r.kernel.org>" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] net: socionext: Add Synquacer NetSec driver

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
> On 12 December 2017 at 17:15,  <jassisinghbrar@...il.com> wrote:
....
>> +
>> +static int netsec_netdev_load_microcode(struct netsec_priv *priv)
>> +{
>> +       int err;
>> +
>> +       err = netsec_netdev_load_ucode_region(
>> +               priv, NETSEC_REG_DMAC_HM_CMD_BUF,
>> +               le32_to_cpup(priv->eeprom_base + NETSEC_EEPROM_HM_ME_ADDRESS_H),
>> +               le32_to_cpup(priv->eeprom_base + NETSEC_EEPROM_HM_ME_ADDRESS_L),
>> +               le32_to_cpup(priv->eeprom_base + NETSEC_EEPROM_HM_ME_SIZE));
>
> ... here, and in other places below, you are still dereferencing
> eeprom_base as if it is a pointer, which is not allowed with in the
> __iomem address space. This should use readl() instead [which happens
> to incorporate the endian swap as well]
>
Ahh, how could it have been just two revisions!

thanks