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Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: Tkip fix sparse endianity complain in tkip code

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On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 20:05 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> This patch fix wrong cast in tkip code
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/tkip.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/tkip.c b/net/mac80211/tkip.c
> index f61f1dd..0ce2a84 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/tkip.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/tkip.c
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static u8 *set_ext_iv(u8 *pos, u16 iv16)
>  
>  static u8 *set_tkip_iv(u8 *pos, u32 iv32)
>  {
> -	*((u32 *)pos) = cpu_to_le32(iv32);
> +	*((__le32 *)pos) = cpu_to_le32(iv32);

The patch introducing this code will be reverted because this is also
rather bad code since it's not known that "pos" is aligned to a
four-byte boundary.

johannes

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