Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
rtw_wlan_util.c:1546:25: warning: cast to restricted __
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as
unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
rtw_wlan_util.c:1546:25: warning: cast to restricted _
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as
unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
rtw_wlan_util.c:1546:25: warning: cast to restricted _
On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
r
On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
>> Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
>> unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
>>
>>rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
>>rtw_wlan_ut
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
> >Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
> >unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
> >
> > rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted
On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 12:35 +0100, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
> I'm _far_ from being a wireless expert but doesn't data coming out of
> the wire/air have the endianess defined explicitly? And both `AC_param`
> and `ADDBA_request` come out of air?
In general, data in 802.11 frames is little endian.
On 12/12/2014 06:52 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
rtw_wlan_util.c:5
Krzysztof Konopko writes:
> On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote:
>> In RTL8188EU, both BA_starting_seqctrl and TXOP_limit are unsigned short.
>>
>
> That's not quite the case. `TXOP_limit` is __le16 in RTL8188EU [1].
> It's __le16 even in your GitHub repo [2]. And that made me thinking
> that
Krzysztof Konopko writes:
> Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
> unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
>
> rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> rtw_wlan_util.c:1
On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote:
This fix may make the sparse warnings go away, but I think it introduces
new bugs.
Right, I see. Nice try though, isn't it? ;)
In particular, did you test on big-endian hardware after you
made this chan
Larry Finger writes:
> On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
>> I was hunting particularly for inconsistencies with `sparse` and came
>> across this one. But I dug a bit further and I wonder why the driver is
>> not using standard stuff like the one in `include/linux/ieee80211.h`
>> wh
On 12/12/14 17:43, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 12/12/2014 06:52 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
unsigned shor
On 12/12/14 18:12, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Krzysztof Konopko writes:
>> Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as
>> unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
>>
>> rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
>> rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: c
On 12/12/14 18:35, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
>> On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> In particular, did you test on big-endian hardware after you
>>> made this change?
>>
>> Nope. I don't have any big-endian hardware. I don't even have the
>> wir
On 12/12/14 19:52, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Larry Finger writes:
>> On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
>>> I was hunting particularly for inconsistencies with `sparse` and came
>>> across this one. But I dug a bit further and I wonder why the driver is
>>> not using standard stuff like
On 12/12/2014 04:50 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
On 12/12/14 18:35, Larry Finger wrote:
On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote:
In particular, did you test on big-endian hardware after you
made this change?
Nope. I don't have any big-endian ha
On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 23:58 +0100, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
> This patch changes the types of the struct fields involved to be
> little-endian which is what is received over the air and consistent with
> relevant structs in include/linux/ieee80211.h.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/incl
Krzysztof Konopko writes:
> On 12/12/14 19:52, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Larry Finger writes:
>>> On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
I was hunting particularly for inconsistencies with `sparse` and came
across this one. But I dug a bit further and I wonder why the driver is
Krzysztof Konopko writes:
> Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as
> unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
>
> rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> rtw_wlan_util.c:
Krzysztof Konopko writes:
> Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as
> unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:
>
> rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
> rtw_wlan_util.c:
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