patch "staging: comedi: adv_pci1710: Fix endian problem for AI command data" added to staging-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: comedi: adv_pci1710: Fix endian problem for AI command data

to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 9f17114aa8324c61eda74668d56b7dba8c56d049 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:30:44 +0000
Subject: staging: comedi: adv_pci1710: Fix endian problem for AI command data

The analog input subdevice supports Comedi asynchronous commands that use Comedi's 16-bit sample format. However, the calls to comedi_buf_write_samples() are passing the address of a 32-bit integer variable. On bigendian machines, this will copy 2 bytes from the wrong end of the 32-bit value. Fix it by changing the type of the variables holding the sample value to unsigned short. The type of the val parameter of pci1710_ai_read_sample() is changed to unsigned short * accordingly. The type of the val variable in pci1710_ai_insn_read() is also changed to unsigned short since its address is passed to pci1710_ai_read_sample().

---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adv_pci1710.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

index 692893c7e5c3..090607760be6 100644
@@ -300,11 +300,11 @@ static int pci1710_ai_eoc(struct comedi_device *dev,
 static int pci1710_ai_read_sample(struct comedi_device *dev,
 				  struct comedi_subdevice *s,
 				  unsigned int cur_chan,
-				  unsigned int *val)
+				  unsigned short *val)
 {
 	const struct boardtype *board = dev->board_ptr;
 	struct pci1710_private *devpriv = dev->private;
-	unsigned int sample;
+	unsigned short sample;
 	unsigned int chan;
 
 	sample = inw(dev->iobase + PCI171X_AD_DATA_REG);

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static int pci1710_ai_insn_read(struct comedi_device *dev,
 	pci1710_ai_setup_chanlist(dev, s, &insn->chanspec, 1, 1);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < insn->n; i++) {
-		unsigned int val;
+		unsigned short val;
 
 		/* start conversion */
 		outw(0, dev->iobase + PCI171X_SOFTTRG_REG);

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static void pci1710_handle_every_sample(struct comedi_device *dev,
 {
 	struct comedi_cmd *cmd = &s->async->cmd;
 	unsigned int status;
-	unsigned int val;
+	unsigned short val;
 	int ret;
 
 	status = inw(dev->iobase + PCI171X_STATUS_REG);

@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static void pci1710_handle_fifo(struct comedi_device *dev,
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < devpriv->max_samples; i++) {
-		unsigned int val;
+		unsigned short val;
 		int ret;
 
 		ret = pci1710_ai_read_sample(dev, s, s->async->cur_chan, &val);

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