From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] Staging: rtl8192e: fix an endian bug
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:12:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130529081136.GA12950@debian> (raw)
Passing the high bits of "ratr_value" to rtl8192_config_rate() only
works on little endian systems. We should be passing a u16 value.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c
index a9d78e9..50c7bb7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c
@@ -2128,10 +2128,11 @@ void rtl8192_update_ratr_table(struct net_device *dev)
struct rtllib_device *ieee = priv->rtllib;
u8 *pMcsRate = ieee->dot11HTOperationalRateSet;
u32 ratr_value = 0;
+ u16 rate_config = 0;
u8 rate_index = 0;
- rtl8192_config_rate(dev, (u16 *)(&ratr_value));
- ratr_value |= (*(u16 *)(pMcsRate)) << 12;
+ rtl8192_config_rate(dev, &rate_config);
+ ratr_value = rate_config | *pMcsRate << 12;
switch (ieee->mode) {
case IEEE_A:
ratr_value &= 0x00000FF0;
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