[PATCH 2/3] virtio: mmio: fix signature checking for BE guests

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Oct 11 10:36:10 EDT 2013


As virtio-mmio config registers are specified to be little-endian,
using readl() to read the magic value and then memcmp() to check it
fails on BE (as readl() has an implicit swab).

Fix it by encoding the magic value as an integer instead of a string.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
index 1ba0d68..57f24fd 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ static int virtio_mmio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	/* Check magic value */
 	magic = readl(vm_dev->base + VIRTIO_MMIO_MAGIC_VALUE);
-	if (memcmp(&magic, "virt", 4) != 0) {
+	if (magic != ('v' | 'i' << 8 | 'r' << 16 | 't' << 24)) {
 		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Wrong magic value 0x%08lx!\n", magic);
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
-- 
1.8.2.3





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