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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    mwifiex: Add missing endian conversion.

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:42:49 +0200
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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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 5a1c1d0..86c025d 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
--
1.8.1.2