[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mwifiex: Add missing endian conversion." has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Sun Aug 4 09:49:33 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mwifiex: Add missing endian conversion.

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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commit 83e612f632c3897be29ef02e0472f6d63e258378 upstream.

Both type and pkt_len variables are in host endian and these should be in
Little Endian in the payload.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Moń <desowin at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c
index 82cf0fa..821d9d2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c
@@ -1455,8 +1455,8 @@ static int mwifiex_sdio_host_to_card(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter,
 	/* Allocate buffer and copy payload */
 	blk_size = MWIFIEX_SDIO_BLOCK_SIZE;
 	buf_block_len = (pkt_len + blk_size - 1) / blk_size;
-	*(u16 *) &payload[0] = (u16) pkt_len;
-	*(u16 *) &payload[2] = type;
+	*(__le16 *)&payload[0] = cpu_to_le16((u16)pkt_len);
+	*(__le16 *)&payload[2] = cpu_to_le16(type);

 	/*
 	 * This is SDIO specific header
--
1.8.3.2





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