On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 06:30:05PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> With char becoming unsigned by default, and with `char` alone being
> ambiguous and based on architecture, signed chars need to be marked
> explicitly as such. In this case, passing `char *extra` is part of the
> iw API, and that extra is mostly intended to be somewhat opaque. So just
> cast to `s8 *` for the sign test. This fixes warnings like:
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c:459 rtllib_wx_set_essid() warn: impossible condition '(extra[i] < 0) => (0-255 < 0)'
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-staging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c
> index f9589c5b62ba..4563e3b5bd47 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_essid(struct rtllib_device *ieee,
> }
>
> for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
> - if (extra[i] < 0) {
> + if (((s8 *)extra)[i] < 0) {
I agree with Linus that this if statement is nonsense and should just be
deleted.
regards,
dan carpenter
> ret = -1;
> goto out;
> }
