The cast here is wrong. We want to cast the pointer but we accidentally
do a no-op cast of the value. We normally want to set us_nav_upper to
WIFI_NAV_UPPER_US (30000) but because of this bug we instead set it to
184 on little endian systems and 0 on big endian ones.
Fixes: 3c05bedb5fef ("Staging: rtl8812ae: Add Realtek 8821 PCI WIFI driver")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
index 2bc6bace069c..230f92a48f3c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ void rtl8821ae_set_hw_reg(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 variable, u8 *val)
_rtl8821ae_resume_tx_beacon(hw);
break; }
case HW_VAR_NAV_UPPER: {
- u32 us_nav_upper = ((u32)*val);
+ u32 us_nav_upper = *(u32 *)val;
if (us_nav_upper > HAL_92C_NAV_UPPER_UNIT * 0xFF) {
RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_INIT , DBG_WARNING,
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