linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: Silence sparse warning

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:24:41 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Gaston Gonzalez <gascoar@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, navyasri.tech@...il.com,
	joe@...ches.com, arnd@...db.de, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: Silence sparse warning

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 05:43:51PM -0300, Gaston Gonzalez wrote:
> Silence the following sparse warning:
> 
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c:184:16: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> 

We have a tkip_mixing_phase2() function in net/mac80211/tkip.c.  That's
probably the better thing.

> Signed-off-by: Gaston Gonzalez <gascoar@...il.com>
> ---
>  .../rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c      | 22 +++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
> index e815c81..efa6983 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
> @@ -179,1 +179,1 @@ static inline u16 Mk16(u8 hi, u8 lo)
>  }
> 
> 
> -static inline u16 Mk16_le(u16 *v)
> +static inline u16 Mk16_le(__le16 *v)
>  {
>  	return le16_to_cpu(*v);
>  }


Mk16_le() is a bad function name and as we can see from tkip.c it just
duplicates get_unaligned_le16().  Better to make TK void pointer instead
of a u8 pointer (because it doesn't point to u8s so we have to cast it
every time we use it).  This is another trick I learned from tkip.c.

regards,
dan carpenter

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