Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: bonding: fix incorrect type in assignment

From: Jay Vosburgh <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:51:06 -0800

Bo YU <[email-masked]> wrote:

>There are some warning when:
>
>sudo make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ drivers/net/bonding/
>
>drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:2438:40: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:2438:40:    expected restricted __be16 [usertype] vlan_proto
>drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:2438:40:
>...
>rivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:1089:24: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:1089:24:    expected restricted __be32 [addressable] [usertype] target
>drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:1089:24:    got unsigned long long const [usertype] value
>
>So fix it
>
>Signed-off-by: Bo YU <[email-masked]>
>---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c    | 2 +-
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index 135fec28daa9..07e52d863e91 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -2435,7 +2435,7 @@ struct bond_vlan_tag *bond_verify_device_path(struct net_device *start_dev,
> 		tags = kcalloc(level + 1, sizeof(*tags), GFP_ATOMIC);
> 		if (!tags)
> 			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>-		tags[level].vlan_proto = VLAN_N_VID;
>+		tags[level].vlan_proto = cpu_to_be16(VLAN_N_VID);
> 		return tags;
> 	}
> 
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
>index da1fc17295d9..3a196999bd1b 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c
>@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ static int bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set(struct bonding *bond,
> 		else
> 			netdev_err(bond->dev, "no command found in arp_ip_targets file - use +<addr> or -<addr>\n");
> 	} else {
>-		target = newval->value;
>+		target = cpu_to_be32(newval->value);
> 		ret = bond_option_arp_ip_target_add(bond, target);

	I'm not sure this is correct; if I'm reading the call path
correctly, bond_changelink will

        if (data[IFLA_BOND_ARP_IP_TARGET]) {
[...]
                        __be32 target;
[...]
                        target = nla_get_be32(attr);

                        bond_opt_initval(&newval, (__force u64)target);
                        err = __bond_opt_set(bond, BOND_OPT_ARP_TARGETS,
                                             &newval);

	thus, newval.value is initially be32, but stored in a u64.
__bond_opt_set will call bond_opt_parse, which in turn will call
bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set (via .set), and the change above would
swap the newval.value back to host order (on little endian architectures
for which cpu_to_be32 is not a no-op).

	Am I misunderstanding?  Did you test this change on an x86 or
other little endian system?

	-J

---
	-Jay Vosburgh, [email-masked]