[PATCH] net_sched: force endianness annotation

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Sun Apr 28 2019 - 02:00:57 EST


While the endiannes is being handled correctly sparse was unhappy with
the missing annotation as be16_to_cpu()/be32_to_cpu() expects a __be16
respectively __be32. To mitigate this annotation issue forced annotation
is introduced. Note that this patch has no impact on the generated binary.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Problem located by an experimental cocci script to locate sparse annontation isues.
net/sched/em_cmp.c:44:31: warning: cast to restricted __be16
net/sched/em_cmp.c:44:31: warning: cast to restricted __be16
net/sched/em_cmp.c:44:31: warning: cast to restricted __be16
net/sched/em_cmp.c:44:31: warning: cast to restricted __be16
net/sched/em_cmp.c:54:31: warning: cast to restricted __be32
net/sched/em_cmp.c:54:31: warning: cast to restricted __be32
net/sched/em_cmp.c:54:31: warning: cast to restricted __be32
net/sched/em_cmp.c:54:31: warning: cast to restricted __be32
net/sched/em_cmp.c:54:31: warning: cast to restricted __be32
net/sched/em_cmp.c:54:31: warning: cast to restricted __be32

This is due to the variable being converted and thus the type is the
teget system type and it must be caset to __be16/__be32 here for sparse
to understand that endianness is adequately handled.

Patch was compile-tested with: x86_64_defconfig

Verification that the patch has no impact on the binary being generated
was done by diff on the binary before and after applying the patch.

Patch is against 5.1-rc6 (localversion-next is next-20190426)

net/sched/em_cmp.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/em_cmp.c b/net/sched/em_cmp.c
index 1c8360a..3045ee1 100644
--- a/net/sched/em_cmp.c
+++ b/net/sched/em_cmp.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int em_cmp_match(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_ematch *em,
val = get_unaligned_be16(ptr);

if (cmp_needs_transformation(cmp))
- val = be16_to_cpu(val);
+ val = be16_to_cpu((__force __be16)val);
break;

case TCF_EM_ALIGN_U32:
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int em_cmp_match(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_ematch *em,
val = get_unaligned_be32(ptr);

if (cmp_needs_transformation(cmp))
- val = be32_to_cpu(val);
+ val = be32_to_cpu((__force __be32)val);
break;

default:
--
2.1.4