linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: fix type warnings in ntohl/nthos

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Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:35:58 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Ben Dooks (Codethink)" <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: fix type warnings in ntohl/nthos

On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 11:09 +0000, Ben Dooks (Codethink) wrote:
> The ntohl takes a __be32 and ntohs takes __be16, so cast to
> those types before passing it to the byte swapping functions.

Thanks!

> Note, would be32_to_cpu and be16_to_cpu be better here?

Yes, I think that should work too.

/Jarkko