py: Allow to pass in read-only buffers to viper and inline-asm funcs.

Fixes #4936.

py/nativeglue.c

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ mp_uint_t mp_native_from_obj(mp_obj_t obj, mp_uint_t type) {
         case MP_NATIVE_TYPE_UINT: return mp_obj_get_int_truncated(obj);
         default: { // cast obj to a pointer
             mp_buffer_info_t bufinfo;
-            if (mp_get_buffer(obj, &bufinfo, MP_BUFFER_RW)) {
+            if (mp_get_buffer(obj, &bufinfo, MP_BUFFER_READ)) {
                 return (mp_uint_t)bufinfo.buf;
             } else {
                 // assume obj is an integer that represents an address

py/objfun.c

@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ STATIC mp_uint_t convert_obj_for_inline_asm(mp_obj_t obj) {
             return (mp_uint_t)items;
         } else {
             mp_buffer_info_t bufinfo;
-            if (mp_get_buffer(obj, &bufinfo, MP_BUFFER_WRITE)) {
+            if (mp_get_buffer(obj, &bufinfo, MP_BUFFER_READ)) {
                 // supports the buffer protocol, return a pointer to the data
                 return (mp_uint_t)bufinfo.buf;
             } else {

tests/inlineasm/asmsum.py

@@ -55,3 +55,7 @@ print(b, n)
 b = array.array('b', (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80))
 n = asm_sum_bytes(len(b), b)
 print(b, n)
+
+b = b'\x01\x02\x03\x04'
+n = asm_sum_bytes(len(b), b)
+print(b, n)

tests/inlineasm/asmsum.py.exp

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 array('l', [100, 200, 300, 400]) 1000
 array('b', [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80]) 360
+b'\x01\x02\x03\x04' 10

tests/micropython/viper_addr.py

@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ def memset(dest:ptr8, c:int, n:int):
     for i in range(n):
         dest[i] = c
 
+@micropython.viper
+def memsum(src:ptr8, n:int) -> int:
+    s = 0
+    for i in range(n):
+        s += src[i]
+    return s
+
 # create array and get its address
 ar = bytearray('0000')
 addr = get_addr(ar)
@@ -27,3 +34,6 @@ print(ar)
 # pass direct pointer to array buffer, with offset
 memset(addr + 2, ord('3'), len(ar) - 2)
 print(ar)
+
+# pass a read-only bytes object in
+print(memsum(b'\x01\x02\x03\x04', 4))

tests/micropython/viper_addr.py.exp

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ bytearray(b'0000')
 bytearray(b'1111')
 bytearray(b'2222')
 bytearray(b'2233')
+10