[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40evf: Use le32_to_cpu before evaluating HW desc fields.

Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Tue May 16 23:07:17 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 16:15 -0700, Tushar Dave wrote:
> i40e hardware descriptor fields are in little-endian format. Driver
> must use le32_to_cpu while evaluating these fields otherwise on
> big-endian arch we end up evaluating incorrect values, cause errors
> like:
> 
> i40evf 0001:04:02.0: Expected response 0 from PF, received 285212672
> i40evf 0001:04:02.1: Expected response 0 from PF, received 285212672
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave at oracle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Due to recent patches already applied to my tree, this patch does not
apply cleanly.  Feel free to send an updated patch, if the change is
still needed.
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