linux-kernel - [PATCH] i40e: little endian only valid checksums

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Date:   Wed,  2 Mar 2022 04:57:02 -0800
From:   trix@...hat.com
To:     jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] i40e: little endian only valid checksums

From: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>

The calculation of the checksum can fail.
So move converting the checksum to little endian
to inside the return status check.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
index fe6dca846028f..3a38bf8bcde7e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
@@ -682,10 +682,11 @@ i40e_status i40e_update_nvm_checksum(struct i40e_hw *hw)
 	__le16 le_sum;
 
 	ret_code = i40e_calc_nvm_checksum(hw, &checksum);
-	le_sum = cpu_to_le16(checksum);
-	if (!ret_code)
+	if (!ret_code) {
+		le_sum = cpu_to_le16(checksum);
 		ret_code = i40e_write_nvm_aq(hw, 0x00, I40E_SR_SW_CHECKSUM_WORD,
 					     1, &le_sum, true);
+	}
 
 	return ret_code;
 }
-- 
2.26.3