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From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@bp.renesas.com>,
	Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: sh-sci: Use plain struct copy in early_console_setup()
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 18:45:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b71bb27e-003f-4b5d-8654-c7639b105e29@tuxon.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e097e5c11afe5bd4c01135779c9a40e707ef6374.1733243287.git.geert+renesas@glider.be>

Hi, Geert,

On 03.12.2024 18:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Using memcpy() prevents the compiler from doing any checking on the
> types of the passed pointer parameters.  Copy the structure using struct
> assignment instead, to increase type-safety.
> 
> No change in generated code on all relevant architectures
> (arm/arm64/riscv/sh).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Not sure, do you think it should carry a fixes tag?

> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> index df523c7444230836..1ed13ce2c2952547 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> @@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@ static int __init early_console_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
>  	device->port.type = type;
> -	memcpy(&sci_ports[0].port, &device->port, sizeof(struct uart_port));
> +	sci_ports[0].port = device->port;

I'm currently preparing my fixes around this code. I think I should rebase
on top of your patch :)


Thank you,
Claudiu

>  	port_cfg.type = type;
>  	sci_ports[0].cfg = &port_cfg;
>  	sci_ports[0].params = sci_probe_regmap(&port_cfg);

  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-03 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-03 16:30 [PATCH] serial: sh-sci: Use plain struct copy in early_console_setup() Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-12-03 16:45 ` Claudiu Beznea [this message]
2024-12-03 16:49   ` Claudiu Beznea
2024-12-03 17:01   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-12-04 11:28 ` Lad, Prabhakar
2024-12-04 16:12 ` Claudiu Beznea
2025-01-30  8:33 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

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