Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Fix incorrent type in assignment

From: YU Bo
Date: Tue Feb 26 2019 - 02:27:39 EST


On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 06:39:28AM +0000, Ajay.Kathat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


On 2/26/2019 8:58 AM, Bo YU wrote:
The patch fixes following sparse warning:

drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:450:30: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:450:30: expected restricted __le16 [usertype] beacon_period
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:450:30: got unsigned short [usertype] beacon_interval
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:451:25: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:451:25: expected restricted __le16 [usertype] cap_info
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:451:25: got unsigned short [usertype] capability

Signed-off-by: Bo YU <tsu.yubo@xxxxxxxxx>
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I have no hardware to test it and just to compile it

Thanks for submitting the patch.

The correct way to fix above spare warning is by using cpu_to_le16()
while filing the information in ->beacon_period and ->cap_info because
wilc1000 module expects the data in _le_ byte order.

Please changes the below lines in host_interface.c and resubmit the patch.
param->beacon_period = bss->beacon_interval;
param->cap_info = bss->capability;
to
param->beacon_period = cpu_to_le16(bss->beacon_interval);
param->cap_info = cpu_to_le16(bss->capability);
Ok, done, thank you,
Bo

---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
index 50dc2dd942f5..cdcb52aec779 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ struct wilc_join_bss_param {
u8 ssid_terminator;
u8 bss_type;
u8 ch;
- __le16 cap_info;
+ u16 cap_info;
u8 sa[ETH_ALEN];
u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];
- __le16 beacon_period;
+ u16 beacon_period;
u8 dtim_period;
u8 supp_rates[WILC_MAX_RATES_SUPPORTED + 1];
u8 wmm_cap;


Regards,
Ajay