Patch "staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem

to the 4.9-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-rtl8712-fixed-little-endian-problem.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017
From: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:59:46 +0100
Subject: staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem

From: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 502c80744fcac6b16f28699469c70db499fe2f69 ]

Fixed a sparse warning.
Using function le16_to_cpus() to avoid double assignment.

Signed-off-by: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@gmail.com>
Tested-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/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack char *translat
 	iwe.cmd = SIOCGIWMODE;
 	memcpy((u8 *)&cap, r8712_get_capability_from_ie(pnetwork->network.IEs),
 		2);
-	cap = le16_to_cpu(cap);
+	le16_to_cpus(&cap);
 	if (cap & (WLAN_CAPABILITY_IBSS | WLAN_CAPABILITY_BSS)) {
 		if (cap & WLAN_CAPABILITY_BSS)
 			iwe.u.mode = (u32)IW_MODE_MASTER;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from becher.jannik@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/staging-rtl8712-fixed-little-endian-problem.patch