[PATCH V5 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global_lock'

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Sat Sep 26 15:04:06 PDT 2015


global_lock is defined as an unsigned long and accessing only its lower
32 bits from sysfs is incorrect, as we need to consider other 32 bits
for big endian 64-bit systems. There are no such platforms yet, but the
code needs to be robust for such a case.

Fix that by changing type of 'global_lock' to u32.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
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V4->V5:
- Switch back to the original solution of making global_lock u32.
---
 drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c   | 2 +-
 drivers/acpi/internal.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c b/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c
index b4c216bab22b..bea8e425a8de 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static int acpi_ec_add_debugfs(struct acpi_ec *ec, unsigned int ec_device_count)
 	if (!debugfs_create_x32("gpe", 0444, dev_dir, (u32 *)&first_ec->gpe))
 		goto error;
 	if (!debugfs_create_bool("use_global_lock", 0444, dev_dir,
-				 (u32 *)&first_ec->global_lock))
+				 &first_ec->global_lock))
 		goto error;
 
 	if (write_support)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/internal.h b/drivers/acpi/internal.h
index 9e426210c2a8..9db196de003c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/internal.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/internal.h
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ struct acpi_ec {
 	unsigned long gpe;
 	unsigned long command_addr;
 	unsigned long data_addr;
-	unsigned long global_lock;
+	u32 global_lock;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long reference_count;
 	struct mutex mutex;
-- 
2.4.0




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