From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0166B0038 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:04:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pacfv12 with SMTP id fv12so140492318pac.2 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pa0-f44.google.com (mail-pa0-f44.google.com. [209.85.220.44]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ev3si15486624pbc.67.2015.09.26.15.04.41 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pablk4 with SMTP id lk4so40896295pab.3 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:04:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Viresh Kumar Subject: [PATCH V5 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global_lock' Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:04:06 -0700 Message-Id: <8d3d3428c3a36f821e4c3d8563d094ca4b4763fd.1443304934.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, QCA ath9k Development , Intel Linux Wireless , Viresh Kumar , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org global_lock is defined as an unsigned long and accessing only its lower 32 bits from sysfs is incorrect, as we need to consider other 32 bits for big endian 64-bit systems. There are no such platforms yet, but the code needs to be robust for such a case. Fix that by changing type of 'global_lock' to u32. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar --- BCC'd a lot of people (rather than cc'ing them) to make sure - the series reaches them - mailing lists do not block the patchset due to long cc list - and we don't spam the BCC'd people for every reply V4->V5: - Switch back to the original solution of making global_lock u32. --- drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/internal.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c b/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c index b4c216bab22b..bea8e425a8de 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec_sys.c @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static int acpi_ec_add_debugfs(struct acpi_ec *ec, unsigned int ec_device_count) if (!debugfs_create_x32("gpe", 0444, dev_dir, (u32 *)&first_ec->gpe)) goto error; if (!debugfs_create_bool("use_global_lock", 0444, dev_dir, - (u32 *)&first_ec->global_lock)) + &first_ec->global_lock)) goto error; if (write_support) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/internal.h b/drivers/acpi/internal.h index 9e426210c2a8..9db196de003c 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/internal.h +++ b/drivers/acpi/internal.h @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ struct acpi_ec { unsigned long gpe; unsigned long command_addr; unsigned long data_addr; - unsigned long global_lock; + u32 global_lock; unsigned long flags; unsigned long reference_count; struct mutex mutex; -- 2.4.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org