tree 9752672fda6c349e9db62c42317f98e3988734ba
parent dedabbbcb5ed7c75664b4ca66a525c09fe6acf12
author David Matlack <matlackdavid@gmail.com> 1400562239 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1400843592 +0900

staging: slicoss: fix eeprom checksum code

Rewrite slic_eeprom_cksum() to fix bugs and make readable. This patch
technically has no effect on the user as failed eeprom checksums are
ignored anyway.

The original implementation had the following issues:

  1. 2 of the 3 unrolled loops had the following bug:

       while ((len -= 32) >= 0) {
               [...]
               sum += w[15];
               w = (u16 *)((ulong) w + 16);    /* verify */
       }

     This processes 32-bytes of data but only increments the word
     pointer by 16 bytes. Fixing both of these bugs seems to fix
     slic_eeprom_cksum().

  2. Non-descriptive variable names, use of unions, and macros that
     change local state make the code difficult to read.

  3. The checksum loop is unrolled which makes the code harder to
     reason about while providing small performance improvement:
      - max eeprom length is 0x80 bytes (MAX_EECODE_SIZE), that's
        only 0x40 iterations
      - checksum is only computed during pci probe(), so not very
        often

Tested on Mojave card

Signed-off-by: David Matlack <matlackdavid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>