From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:28:23 +0000 Subject: [patch] ath9k_hw: min_t() casts u32 to int Message-Id: <20111017072823.GA7812@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Jouni Malinen , Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan , Senthil Balasubramanian , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org The code here treats very large values of "limit" as less than MAX_POWER_RATE because of the cast to int. We should do the compare as u32 instead. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c index e0c8549..f9abbb7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c @@ -2526,7 +2526,7 @@ void ath9k_hw_set_txpowerlimit(struct ath_hw *ah, u32 limit, bool test) struct ath9k_channel *chan = ah->curchan; struct ieee80211_channel *channel = chan->chan; - reg->power_limit = min_t(int, limit, MAX_RATE_POWER); + reg->power_limit = min_t(u32, limit, MAX_RATE_POWER); if (test) channel->max_power = MAX_RATE_POWER / 2;