Patch "staging: r8712u: Fix Sparse warning in rtl871x_xmit.c" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

staging: r8712u: Fix Sparse warning in rtl871x_xmit.c

to the 4.4-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:

     staging-r8712u-fix-sparse-warning-in-rtl871x_xmit.c.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:30:27 -0600
Subject: staging: r8712u: Fix Sparse warning in rtl871x_xmit.c

From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 07222e535831b916221dd2a48a3047ec7e45dc72 ]

Sparse reports the following:
CHECK drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c:350:44: warning: restricted __le32 degrades to integer drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c:491:23: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different base types)
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c:491:23: expected unsigned short [usertype] *fctrl
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c:491:23: got restricted __le16 *<noident>
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c:580:36: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c:580:36: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [short] [usertype] <noident>
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c:580:36: got restricted __be16 [usertype] <noident>

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -339,7 +339,8 @@ sint r8712_update_attrib(struct _adapter
 	/* if in MP_STATE, update pkt_attrib from mp_txcmd, and overwrite
 	 * some settings above.*/
 	if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, WIFI_MP_STATE))
-		pattrib->priority = (txdesc.txdw1 >> QSEL_SHT) & 0x1f;
+		pattrib->priority =
+		    (le32_to_cpu(txdesc.txdw1) >> QSEL_SHT) & 0x1f;
 	return _SUCCESS;
 }
 

@@ -479,7 +480,7 @@ static sint make_wlanhdr(struct _adapter
 	struct ieee80211_hdr *pwlanhdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)hdr;
 	struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv = &padapter->mlmepriv;
 	struct qos_priv *pqospriv = &pmlmepriv->qospriv;
-	u16 *fctrl = &pwlanhdr->frame_ctl;
+	__le16 *fctrl = &pwlanhdr->frame_ctl;
 
 	memset(hdr, 0, WLANHDR_OFFSET);
 	SetFrameSubType(fctrl, pattrib->subtype);

@@ -568,7 +569,7 @@ static sint r8712_put_snap(u8 *data, u16
 	snap->oui[0] = oui[0];
 	snap->oui[1] = oui[1];
 	snap->oui[2] = oui[2];
-	*(u16 *)(data + SNAP_SIZE) = htons(h_proto);
+	*(__be16 *)(data + SNAP_SIZE) = htons(h_proto);
 	return SNAP_SIZE + sizeof(u16);
 }
 

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

queue-4.4/staging-r8712u-fix-sparse-warning-in-rtl871x_xmit.c.patch queue-4.4/staging-rtl8712u-fix-endian-settings-for-structs-describing-network-packets.patch