On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 12:52 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:43:31AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 11:15 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > @@ -8028,10 +8028,10 @@ static void ipw_handle_promiscuous_rx(struct 
> > > ipw_priv *priv,
> > >  
> > >   /* Zero the flags, we'll add to them as we go */
> > >   ipw_rt->rt_flags = 0;
> > > - ipw_rt->rt_tsf = (u64)(frame->parent_tsf[3] << 24 |
> > > -                        frame->parent_tsf[2] << 16 |
> > > -                        frame->parent_tsf[1] << 8  |
> > > -                        frame->parent_tsf[0]);
> > > + ipw_rt->rt_tsf = (u64)frame->parent_tsf[3] << 24 |
> > > +                       frame->parent_tsf[2] << 16 |
> > > +                       frame->parent_tsf[1] << 8  |
> > > +                       frame->parent_tsf[0];
> > >  
> > >   /* Convert to DBM */
> > >   ipw_rt->rt_dbmsignal = signal;
> > 
> > struct ipw_rt_hdr {
> >     struct ieee80211_radiotap_header rt_hdr;
> >     u64 rt_tsf;      /* TSF */      /* XXX */
> >     u8 rt_flags;    /* radiotap packet flags *
> >     u8 rt_rate;     /* rate in 500kb/s */
> >     __le16 rt_channel;      /* channel in mhz */
> >     __le16 rt_chbitmask;    /* channel bitfield */
> >     s8 rt_dbmsignal;        /* signal in dbM, kluged to signed */
> >     s8 rt_dbmnoise;
> >     u8 rt_antenna;  /* antenna number */
> >     u8 payload[0];  /* payload... */
> > } __packed;
> > 
> > Maybe rt_tsf (which is otherwise unused in this code),
> > should be __le64 so maybe use (u32) ?
> > 
> >     ipw_rt->rt_txf = cpu_to_le64((u32)(frame->parent_tsf[3] << 24 |
> >                                        frame->parent_tsf[2] << 16 |
> >                                        frame->parent_tsf[1] << 8  |
> >                                        frame->parent_tsf[0]));
> > 
> 
> Hm...  It don't think it makes sense to truncate the top bits away by
> truncating to u32.  You may be right though that there is some larger
> bugs here than just the truncation.

<shrug>  It'd be a tad faster than using multiple 64 bit
operations on a 32 bit machine.

> Both the "frame" and the "ipw_rt" struct seem to hold little endian
> values generally so probably ->rt_txf should be an __le64 like you say.
>   
> Perhaps the maintainers know what should be done?

Are there any maintainers left?

Likely this was only ever tested/used on x86 hardware.


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to