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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ubifs: endian handling fixes and annotations
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Harvey,

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:52 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> Noticed by sparse:
> fs/ubifs/file.c:75:2: warning: restricted __le64 degrades to integer
> fs/ubifs/file.c:629:4: warning: restricted __le64 degrades to integer
> fs/ubifs/dir.c:431:3: warning: restricted __le64 degrades to integer
>
> This should be checked to ensure the ubifs_assert is working as
> intended, I've done the suggested annotation in this patch.
>
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:298:6: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:298:6: expected int [signed] [assigned] tmp
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:298:6: got restricted __le64 [usertype] <noident>
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:299:19: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:299:19: expected restricted __le64 [usertype] atime_sec
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:299:19: got int [signed] [assigned] tmp
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:300:19: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:300:19: expected restricted __le64 [usertype] ctime_sec
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:300:19: got int [signed] [assigned] tmp
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:301:19: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:301:19: expected restricted __le64 [usertype] mtime_sec
> fs/ubifs/sb.c:301:19: got int [signed] [assigned] tmp

... snip ...

thanks for the patch. It's shame we did not fix this ourselves. We did
run sparse before submitting UBIFS and did not see these warnings.
Probably sparse has been improved recently. Anyway, thank you, I'll look
closer at your patch and apply it to ubifs-2.6.git.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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