[PATCH 2/2] wifi: wilc1000: remove AKM suite be32 conversion for external auth request

From: Alexis Lothoré
Date: Thu Feb 15 2024 - 09:14:49 EST


The driver currently raises the following sparse warning:
[...] cfg80211.c:360:42: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different
base types)
[...] cfg80211.c:360:42: expected unsigned int key_mgmt_suite
[...] cfg80211.c:360:42: got restricted __be32 [usertype]
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c

This conversion was needed because historically the external supplicant
(observed with wpa_supplicant) expects AKM suite as big endian in
NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH message when the AKM suite is WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE.
This is not needed anymore:
- new (to be released) versions of wpa_supplicant now reads it in host
endian _while_ keeping compatibility for older drivers
- for new drivers used with current/old wpa_supplicant, this conversion has
been added to nl80211 to force big endian when the AKM suite is
WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE

Remove this not-needed-anymore conversion to fix the sparse warning.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202308290615.lUTIgqUl-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Tested-on: WILC1000 hwB SPI WILC_WIFI_FW_REL_16_1-13452
Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
index f03fd15c0c97..cb564e2bad29 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static int connect(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
memcpy(vif->auth.ssid.ssid, sme->ssid, sme->ssid_len);
vif->auth.ssid.ssid_len = sme->ssid_len;
}
- vif->auth.key_mgmt_suite = cpu_to_be32(sme->crypto.akm_suites[0]);
+ vif->auth.key_mgmt_suite = sme->crypto.akm_suites[0];
ether_addr_copy(vif->auth.bssid, sme->bssid);
break;


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