[PATCH] arm64: sysreg: Fix unprotected macro argmuent in write_sysreg
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Jul 25 06:08:51 PDT 2017
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> write_sysreg() may misparse the value argument because it is used
> without parentheses to protect it.
>
> This patch adds the ( ) in order to avoid any surprises.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> index 16e44fa..822eebc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ asm(
> * the "%x0" template means XZR.
> */
> #define write_sysreg(v, r) do { \
> - u64 __val = (u64)v; \
> + u64 __val = (u64)(v); \
> asm volatile("msr " __stringify(r) ", %x0" \
> : : "rZ" (__val)); \
> } while (0)
Looks sensible.
It looks like write_sysreg_s() will need the same fixup; could you do
that too?
With that:
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Thanks,
Mark.
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