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Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix an expression that is always false" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix an expression that is always false

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-an-expression-that-is-always-false.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 251086f588720277a6f5782020a648ce32c4e00b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:18:50 -0500
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix an expression that is always false

From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>

commit 251086f588720277a6f5782020a648ce32c4e00b upstream.

In routine _rtl8821ae_set_media_status(), an incorrect mask results in a test for AP status to always be false. Similar bugs were fixed in rtl8192cu and rtl8192de, but this instance was missed at that time.

---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c  |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/reg.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c +1 -1
@@ -2180,7 +2180,7 @@ static int _rtl8821ae_set_media_status(s
 
 	rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, MSR, bt_msr);
 	rtlpriv->cfg->ops->led_control(hw, ledaction);
-	if ((bt_msr & 0xfc) == MSR_AP)
+	if ((bt_msr & MSR_MASK) == MSR_AP)
 		rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_BCNTCFG + 1, 0x00);
 	else
 		rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_BCNTCFG + 1, 0x66);
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/reg.h +1 -0
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@
 #define	MSR_ADHOC				0x01
 #define	MSR_INFRA				0x02
 #define	MSR_AP					0x03
+#define MSR_MASK				0x03
 
 #define	RRSR_RSC_OFFSET				21
 #define	RRSR_SHORT_OFFSET			23

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-an-expression-that-is-always-false.patch queue-4.2/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-add-new-device-id.patch