linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/7] scsi: ufs: Make sysfs attributes writable

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Message-ID: <CAE=gft6Jj0S9iqqAaAo5NsHBMxkVDVTb7mjMAS0RvQs8qhh3gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 08:39:35 -0700
From:   Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>
To:     Bart.VanAssche@....com
Cc:     jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        Vinayak Holikatti <vinholikatti@...il.com>,
        Stanislav.Nijnikov@....com, Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] scsi: ufs: Make sysfs attributes writable

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 1:33 AM Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 11:17 -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> > +static ssize_t _name##_store(struct device *dev,                     \
> > +             struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf,         \
> > +             size_t count)                                           \
> > +{                                                                    \
> > +     struct ufs_hba *hba = dev_get_drvdata(dev);                     \
> > +     unsigned long value;                                            \
> > +     if (kstrtoul(buf, 0, &value))                                   \
> > +             return -EINVAL;                                         \
> > +     if (ufshcd_query_attr(hba, UPIU_QUERY_OPCODE_WRITE_ATTR,        \
> > +             QUERY_ATTR_IDN##_uname, 0, 0, (u32 *)&value))           \
> > +             return -EINVAL;                                         \
> > +     return count;                                                   \
> > +}                                                                    \
>
> Casting an "unsigned long" pointer into an u32 pointer looks evil to me.
> Please don't do this.
>

Will fix.