On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 23:25 +0530, Ujwal Kundur wrote: > Per the RDS 3.1 spec [1], RDS extension headers EXTHDR_NPATHS and > EXTHDR_GEN_NUM are be16 and be32 values respectively, exchanged during > normal operations over-the-wire (RDS Ping/Pong). This contrasts their > declarations as host endian unsigned ints. > > Fix the annotations across occurrences. Flagged by Sparse. > > [1] https://oss.oracle.com/projects/rds/dist/documentation/rds-3.1-spec.html > > Signed-off-by: Ujwal Kundur <ujwal.kundur@xxxxxxxxx> This looks much better now. Thank you! Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/rds/message.c | 4 ++-- > net/rds/recv.c | 4 ++-- > net/rds/send.c | 4 ++-- > 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/rds/message.c b/net/rds/message.c > index 7af59d2443e5..199a899a43e9 100644 > --- a/net/rds/message.c > +++ b/net/rds/message.c > @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ static unsigned int rds_exthdr_size[__RDS_EXTHDR_MAX] = { > [RDS_EXTHDR_VERSION] = sizeof(struct rds_ext_header_version), > [RDS_EXTHDR_RDMA] = sizeof(struct rds_ext_header_rdma), > [RDS_EXTHDR_RDMA_DEST] = sizeof(struct rds_ext_header_rdma_dest), > -[RDS_EXTHDR_NPATHS] = sizeof(u16), > -[RDS_EXTHDR_GEN_NUM] = sizeof(u32), > +[RDS_EXTHDR_NPATHS] = sizeof(__be16), > +[RDS_EXTHDR_GEN_NUM] = sizeof(__be32), > }; > > void rds_message_addref(struct rds_message *rm) > diff --git a/net/rds/recv.c b/net/rds/recv.c > index 5627f80013f8..66205d6924bf 100644 > --- a/net/rds/recv.c > +++ b/net/rds/recv.c > @@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ static void rds_recv_hs_exthdrs(struct rds_header *hdr, > unsigned int pos = 0, type, len; > union { > struct rds_ext_header_version version; > - u16 rds_npaths; > - u32 rds_gen_num; > + __be16 rds_npaths; > + __be32 rds_gen_num; > } buffer; > u32 new_peer_gen_num = 0; > > diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c > index 42d991bc8543..0b3d0ef2f008 100644 > --- a/net/rds/send.c > +++ b/net/rds/send.c > @@ -1454,8 +1454,8 @@ rds_send_probe(struct rds_conn_path *cp, __be16 sport, > > if (RDS_HS_PROBE(be16_to_cpu(sport), be16_to_cpu(dport)) && > cp->cp_conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable) { > - u16 npaths = cpu_to_be16(RDS_MPATH_WORKERS); > - u32 my_gen_num = cpu_to_be32(cp->cp_conn->c_my_gen_num); > + __be16 npaths = cpu_to_be16(RDS_MPATH_WORKERS); > + __be32 my_gen_num = cpu_to_be32(cp->cp_conn->c_my_gen_num); > > rds_message_add_extension(&rm->m_inc.i_hdr, > RDS_EXTHDR_NPATHS, &npaths,