diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0596c306c..90fd2b5ca 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "serde_json"
-version = "1.0.123"
+version = "1.0.124"
 authors = ["Erick Tryzelaar <erick.tryzelaar@gmail.com>", "David Tolnay <dtolnay@gmail.com>"]
 categories = ["encoding", "parser-implementations", "no-std"]
 description = "A JSON serialization file format"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index beefec18d..c1d645654 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
 //! [macro]: crate::json
 //! [`serde-json-core`]: https://github.com/rust-embedded-community/serde-json-core
 
-#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/serde_json/1.0.123")]
+#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/serde_json/1.0.124")]
 // Ignored clippy lints
 #![allow(
     clippy::collapsible_else_if,
diff --git a/src/read.rs b/src/read.rs
index 1494ec6d2..6c663768e 100644
--- a/src/read.rs
+++ b/src/read.rs
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ impl<'a> SliceRead<'a> {
         const ONE_BYTES: Chunk = Chunk::MAX / 255; // 0x0101...01
 
         for chunk in rest.chunks_exact(STEP) {
-            let chars = Chunk::from_ne_bytes(chunk.try_into().unwrap());
+            let chars = Chunk::from_le_bytes(chunk.try_into().unwrap());
             let contains_ctrl = chars.wrapping_sub(ONE_BYTES * 0x20) & !chars;
             let chars_quote = chars ^ (ONE_BYTES * Chunk::from(b'"'));
             let contains_quote = chars_quote.wrapping_sub(ONE_BYTES) & !chars_quote;
@@ -461,14 +461,9 @@ impl<'a> SliceRead<'a> {
             let contains_backslash = chars_backslash.wrapping_sub(ONE_BYTES) & !chars_backslash;
             let masked = (contains_ctrl | contains_quote | contains_backslash) & (ONE_BYTES << 7);
             if masked != 0 {
-                let addresswise_first_bit = if cfg!(target_endian = "little") {
-                    masked.trailing_zeros()
-                } else {
-                    masked.leading_zeros()
-                };
                 // SAFETY: chunk is in-bounds for slice
                 self.index = unsafe { chunk.as_ptr().offset_from(self.slice.as_ptr()) } as usize
-                    + addresswise_first_bit as usize / 8;
+                    + masked.trailing_zeros() as usize / 8;
                 return;
             }
         }
diff --git a/tests/test.rs b/tests/test.rs
index 6baf7e5d9..9f2159513 100644
--- a/tests/test.rs
+++ b/tests/test.rs
@@ -2504,7 +2504,7 @@ fn test_control_character_search() {
     for n in 0..16 {
         for m in 0..16 {
             test_parse_err::<String>(&[(
-                &format!("\"{}\n{}\"", ".".repeat(n), ".".repeat(m)),
+                &format!("\"{}\n{}\"", " ".repeat(n), " ".repeat(m)),
                 "control character (\\u0000-\\u001F) found while parsing a string at line 2 column 0",
             )]);
         }