RE: [PATCH v2] mwifiex: Fix endianness for event TLV type TLV_BTCOEX_WL_SCANTIME

From: Amitkumar Karwar
Date: Thu Jun 30 2016 - 05:22:11 EST


Hi Prasun,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prasun Maiti [mailto:prasunmaiti87@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:01 PM
> To: Amitkumar Karwar
> Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam; Linux Wireless; Linux Next; Linux Kernel; Kalle
> Valo
> Subject: [PATCH v2] mwifiex: Fix endianness for event TLV type
> TLV_BTCOEX_WL_SCANTIME
>
> The two members min_scan_time and max_scan_time of structure
> "mwifiex_ie_types_btcoex_scan_time" are of two bytes each. The values
> are assigned directtly from firmware without endian conversion handling.
> So, wrong datas will get saved in big-endian systems.
>
> This patch converts the values into cpu's byte order before assigning
> them into the local members.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prasun Maiti <prasunmaiti87@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fixed the following sparse compilation warnings:
> * sta_event.c:477:55: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> * sta_event.c:478:55: warning: cast to restricted __le16
>
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h | 4 ++--
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
> b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
> index 8e4145a..03d3edf 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
> @@ -1958,8 +1958,8 @@ struct mwifiex_ie_types_btcoex_scan_time {
> struct mwifiex_ie_types_header header;
> u8 coex_scan;
> u8 reserved;
> - u16 min_scan_time;
> - u16 max_scan_time;
> + __le16 min_scan_time;
> + __le16 max_scan_time;
> } __packed;
>
> struct mwifiex_ie_types_btcoex_aggr_win_size { diff --git
> a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c
> index 0104108..7dff452 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c
> @@ -474,8 +474,8 @@ void mwifiex_bt_coex_wlan_param_update_event(struct
> mwifiex_private *priv,
> scantlv =
> (struct mwifiex_ie_types_btcoex_scan_time *)tlv;
> adapter->coex_scan = scantlv->coex_scan;
> - adapter->coex_min_scan_time = scantlv->min_scan_time;
> - adapter->coex_max_scan_time = scantlv->max_scan_time;
> + adapter->coex_min_scan_time = le16_to_cpu(scantlv-
> >min_scan_time);
> + adapter->coex_max_scan_time = le16_to_cpu(scantlv-
> >max_scan_time);
> break;
>
> default:
> --
> 1.9.1

Updated change looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Amitkumar