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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] rtw_security: fix cast to restricted __le32
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 08:28:58PM +0800, Jhih-Ming Huang wrote:
> This patch fixes the sparse warning of fix cast to restricted __le32.
>
> Last month, there was a change for replacing private CRC-32 routines with
> in-kernel ones.
> In that patch, we replaced getcrc32 with crc32_le in calling le32_to_cpu.
> le32_to_cpu accepts __le32 type as arg, but crc32_le returns unsigned int.
> That how it introduced the sparse warning.

As crc32_le returns a u32 which is in native-endian format, how can you
cast it to le32? Why do you cast it to le32? Isn't that going to be
incorrect for big endian systems?

thanks,

greg k-h

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