From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:57:40 +0000 Subject: [patch] fddi: 64 bit bug in smt_add_para() Message-Id: <20120901195740.GG20741@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org The intent was to set 4 bytes of data so that's why the sp_len is set to 4 on the next line. The cast to u_long pointer clears 8 bytes on 64 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- Code auditing work. I don't have this hardware. This bug is old. diff --git a/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c b/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c index 24d8566..441b4dc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c +++ b/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ void smt_add_para(struct s_smc *smc, struct s_pcon *pcon, u_short para, sm_pm_get_ls(smc,port_to_mib(smc,port))) ; break ; case SMT_P_REASON : - * (u_long *) to = 0 ; + *(u32 *)to = 0 ; sp_len = 4 ; goto sp_done ; case SMT_P1033 : /* time stamp */