Patch "staging: rtl8712u: Fix endian settings for structs describing network packets" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    staging: rtl8712u: Fix endian settings for structs describing network packets

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     staging-rtl8712u-fix-endian-settings-for-structs-describing-network-packets.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Nov  6 10:22:56 CET 2017
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:37:45 +0000
Subject: staging: rtl8712u: Fix endian settings for structs describing network packets

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>


[ Upstream commit 221c46d28957bd6e2158abc2179ce4a8c9ce07d3 ]

The headers describing a number of network packets do not have the
correct endian settings for several types of data.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/ieee80211.h |   84 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/ieee80211.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/ieee80211.h
@@ -143,52 +143,52 @@ struct ieee_ibss_seq {
 };
 
 struct ieee80211_hdr {
-	u16 frame_ctl;
-	u16 duration_id;
+	__le16 frame_ctl;
+	__le16 duration_id;
 	u8 addr1[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8 addr2[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8 addr3[ETH_ALEN];
-	u16 seq_ctl;
+	__le16 seq_ctl;
 	u8 addr4[ETH_ALEN];
-} __packed;
+}  __packed __aligned(2);
 
 struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr {
-	u16 frame_ctl;
-	u16 duration_id;
+	__le16 frame_ctl;
+	__le16 duration_id;
 	u8 addr1[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8 addr2[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8 addr3[ETH_ALEN];
-	u16 seq_ctl;
-} __packed;
+	__le16 seq_ctl;
+}  __packed __aligned(2);
 
 
 struct	ieee80211_hdr_qos {
-	u16 frame_ctl;
-	u16 duration_id;
+	__le16 frame_ctl;
+	__le16 duration_id;
 	u8 addr1[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8 addr2[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8 addr3[ETH_ALEN];
-	u16 seq_ctl;
+	__le16 seq_ctl;
 	u8 addr4[ETH_ALEN];
-	u16	qc;
-}  __packed;
+	__le16	qc;
+}   __packed __aligned(2);
 
 struct  ieee80211_hdr_3addr_qos {
-	u16 frame_ctl;
-	u16 duration_id;
+	__le16 frame_ctl;
+	__le16 duration_id;
 	u8  addr1[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8  addr2[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8  addr3[ETH_ALEN];
-	u16 seq_ctl;
-	u16 qc;
+	__le16 seq_ctl;
+	__le16 qc;
 }  __packed;
 
 struct eapol {
 	u8 snap[6];
-	u16 ethertype;
+	__be16 ethertype;
 	u8 version;
 	u8 type;
-	u16 length;
+	__le16 length;
 } __packed;
 
 
@@ -528,13 +528,13 @@ struct ieee80211_security {
  */
 
 struct ieee80211_header_data {
-	u16 frame_ctl;
-	u16 duration_id;
+	__le16 frame_ctl;
+	__le16 duration_id;
 	u8 addr1[6];
 	u8 addr2[6];
 	u8 addr3[6];
-	u16 seq_ctrl;
-};
+	__le16 seq_ctrl;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 #define BEACON_PROBE_SSID_ID_POSITION 12
 
@@ -566,18 +566,18 @@ struct ieee80211_info_element {
 /*
  * These are the data types that can make up management packets
  *
-	u16 auth_algorithm;
-	u16 auth_sequence;
-	u16 beacon_interval;
-	u16 capability;
+	__le16 auth_algorithm;
+	__le16 auth_sequence;
+	__le16 beacon_interval;
+	__le16 capability;
 	u8 current_ap[ETH_ALEN];
-	u16 listen_interval;
+	__le16 listen_interval;
 	struct {
 		u16 association_id:14, reserved:2;
 	} __packed;
-	u32 time_stamp[2];
-	u16 reason;
-	u16 status;
+	__le32 time_stamp[2];
+	__le16 reason;
+	__le16 status;
 */
 
 #define IEEE80211_DEFAULT_TX_ESSID "Penguin"
@@ -585,16 +585,16 @@ struct ieee80211_info_element {
 
 struct ieee80211_authentication {
 	struct ieee80211_header_data header;
-	u16 algorithm;
-	u16 transaction;
-	u16 status;
+	__le16 algorithm;
+	__le16 transaction;
+	__le16 status;
 } __packed;
 
 struct ieee80211_probe_response {
 	struct ieee80211_header_data header;
-	u32 time_stamp[2];
-	u16 beacon_interval;
-	u16 capability;
+	__le32 time_stamp[2];
+	__le16 beacon_interval;
+	__le16 capability;
 	struct ieee80211_info_element info_element;
 } __packed;
 
@@ -604,16 +604,16 @@ struct ieee80211_probe_request {
 
 struct ieee80211_assoc_request_frame {
 	struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr header;
-	u16 capability;
-	u16 listen_interval;
+	__le16 capability;
+	__le16 listen_interval;
 	struct ieee80211_info_element_hdr info_element;
 } __packed;
 
 struct ieee80211_assoc_response_frame {
 	struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr header;
-	u16 capability;
-	u16 status;
-	u16 aid;
+	__le16 capability;
+	__le16 status;
+	__le16 aid;
 } __packed;
 
 struct ieee80211_txb {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net are

queue-4.4/staging-r8712u-fix-sparse-warning-in-rtl871x_xmit.c.patch
queue-4.4/staging-rtl8712u-fix-endian-settings-for-structs-describing-network-packets.patch