[PATCH v2 1/4] mtd: brcmnand: Fix pointer type-cast in brcmnand_write()

Ray Jui rjui at broadcom.com
Fri Oct 16 08:36:22 PDT 2015


Correct me if I remember it wrong, but I thought this patch has already
been merged by Brian?

Thanks,

Ray

On 10/16/2015 2:08 AM, Anup Patel wrote:
> We should always type-cast pointer to "long" or "unsigned long"
> because size of pointer is same as machine word size. This will
> avoid pointer type-cast issues on both 32bit and 64bit systems.
> 
> This patch fixes pointer type-cast issue in brcmnand_write()
> as-per above info.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vikram Prakash <vikramp at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> index fddb795..4cba03d 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> @@ -1544,9 +1544,9 @@ static int brcmnand_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
>  
>  	dev_dbg(ctrl->dev, "write %llx <- %p\n", (unsigned long long)addr, buf);
>  
> -	if (unlikely((u32)buf & 0x03)) {
> +	if (unlikely((unsigned long)buf & 0x03)) {
>  		dev_warn(ctrl->dev, "unaligned buffer: %p\n", buf);
> -		buf = (u32 *)((u32)buf & ~0x03);
> +		buf = (u32 *)((unsigned long)buf & ~0x03);
>  	}
>  
>  	brcmnand_wp(mtd, 0);
> 



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