linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 2/3] usb: ehci: fsl: Update register accessing for arm/arm64 platforms

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1901091010570.1453-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:14:14 -0500 (EST)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     Ran Wang <ran.wang_1@....com>
cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] usb: ehci: fsl: Update register accessing for
 arm/arm64 platforms

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Ran Wang wrote:

> > Why do you change this writel() into iowrite32be() but leave other instances
> > of writel() unchanged?  Was this a mistake?
> 
> Yes, I didn't notice there are other writel() used in this file.
> However, as I know, on both powerpc and arm SoC, EHCI FSL IP's memory mapped
> register block is always Big-endian, so I'd like to replace all writel() with iowrite32be()
> in this file. Is it necessary? 
> 
> Or I just replace them with ehci_writel() and select CONFIG_USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO?

That should work okay.  ehci_fsl_setup() sets ehci->big_endian_desc and
ehci->big_endian_mmio according to the platform data, so you just have
to make sure the platform data is initialized correctly.

Alan Stern