netdev - Re: bug in "PCI: Support INTx masking on ConnectX-4 with firmware x.14.1100+"?

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:58:22 +0300
From:   Noa Osherovich <noaos@...lanox.com>
To:     Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in "PCI: Support INTx masking on ConnectX-4 with firmware
 x.14.1100+"?

Hi,

On 7/10/2017 7:49 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

> +       /* Reading from resource space should be 32b aligned */
> +       fw_maj_min = ioread32be(fw_ver);
> +       fw_sub_min = ioread32be(fw_ver + 1);
> +       fw_major = fw_maj_min & 0xffff;
> +       fw_minor = fw_maj_min >> 16;
> +       fw_subminor = fw_sub_min & 0xffff;
>
> Maybe second read should be ioread32be(fw_ver + 4)?
>
fw_ver is a pointer:

__be32 __iomem *fw_ver;

Increasing its value means incrementing it by the size of its contents
thus reading the next 32 bits.

Doesn't seem like a bug.

Thanks, Noa