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

From: Ray Jui
Date: Fri Oct 16 2015 - 11:36:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Vikram Prakash <vikramp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <sbranden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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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