[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix more pointer arithmetic errors" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix more pointer arithmetic errors

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 3.8.13.14.

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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>From af3d89aa6d46873460f4afc7be95e77dd1abdc04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:11:16 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix more pointer arithmetic errors

commit eafbdde9c5629bea58df07275c5917eb42afbbe7 upstream.

This driver uses a number of macros to get and set various fields in the
RX and TX descriptors. To work correctly, a u8 pointer to the descriptor
must be used; however, in some cases a descriptor structure pointer is used
instead. In addition, a duplicated statement is removed.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/mac.c | 6 +++---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/mac.c
index 32ff959..aa5528c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/mac.c
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ static long _rtl92c_signal_scale_mapping(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,

 static void _rtl92c_query_rxphystatus(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 				      struct rtl_stats *pstats,
-				      struct rx_desc_92c *pdesc,
+				      struct rx_desc_92c *p_desc,
 				      struct rx_fwinfo_92c *p_drvinfo,
 				      bool packet_match_bssid,
 				      bool packet_toself,
@@ -777,11 +777,11 @@ static void _rtl92c_query_rxphystatus(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	u32 rssi, total_rssi = 0;
 	bool in_powersavemode = false;
 	bool is_cck_rate;
+	u8 *pdesc = (u8 *)p_desc;

-	is_cck_rate = RX_HAL_IS_CCK_RATE(pdesc);
+	is_cck_rate = RX_HAL_IS_CCK_RATE(p_desc);
 	pstats->packet_matchbssid = packet_match_bssid;
 	pstats->packet_toself = packet_toself;
-	pstats->is_cck = is_cck_rate;
 	pstats->packet_beacon = packet_beacon;
 	pstats->is_cck = is_cck_rate;
 	pstats->RX_SIGQ[0] = -1;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
index 6075b34..265862d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
@@ -303,10 +303,10 @@ out:
 bool rtl92cu_rx_query_desc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 			   struct rtl_stats *stats,
 			   struct ieee80211_rx_status *rx_status,
-			   u8 *p_desc, struct sk_buff *skb)
+			   u8 *pdesc, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct rx_fwinfo_92c *p_drvinfo;
-	struct rx_desc_92c *pdesc = (struct rx_desc_92c *)p_desc;
+	struct rx_desc_92c *p_desc = (struct rx_desc_92c *)pdesc;
 	u32 phystatus = GET_RX_DESC_PHY_STATUS(pdesc);

 	stats->length = (u16) GET_RX_DESC_PKT_LEN(pdesc);
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ bool rtl92cu_rx_query_desc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	if (phystatus) {
 		p_drvinfo = (struct rx_fwinfo_92c *)(skb->data +
 						     stats->rx_bufshift);
-		rtl92c_translate_rx_signal_stuff(hw, skb, stats, pdesc,
+		rtl92c_translate_rx_signal_stuff(hw, skb, stats, p_desc,
 						 p_drvinfo);
 	}
 	/*rx_status->qual = stats->signal; */
--
1.8.3.2