From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ju7jO-0005qB-H0 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:07:23 +0000 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 07:07:19 +0200 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20200711050719.GP15485@pengutronix.de> References: <20200707160124.3188793-1-enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de> <9c7cf1e5-baf1-65b0-ddef-e651f6f21e2d@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9c7cf1e5-baf1-65b0-ddef-e651f6f21e2d@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net:fec: fixed unaligned access and stack corruption To: Ahmad Fatoum Cc: Enrico Scholz , barebox@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 07:11:31PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > On 7/7/20 6:01 PM, Enrico Scholz wrote: > > on 64 bit architectures, the 'enum fec_type' might not be aligned and > > large enough to hold a pointer. > > I am wondering if we couldn't just adopt the Linux prototype: > void *dev_get_drvdata(const struct device_d *dev); > > and do away with the error code and most of the casts. > Users won't be able to differentiate between NULL from id table > and NULL due to lack of drvdata, but I don't think this is > that much of a downside, compared with not having casts obscure > the more common pitfall (besides fec_imx.c, lm75.c, apbh_dma.c and nand_mxs.c > are affected as well of which probably only the first is an issue.) Sounds good. When we change this we should rename the function alongside, because dev_get_drvdata() does something different in Linux. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox