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Re: [v3, 4/5] wireless-drivers: use BIT_ULL for NL80211_STA_INFO_ attribute types

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Omer Efrat <omer.efrat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The BIT macro uses unsigned long which some architectures handle as 32 bit
> and therefore might cause macro's shift to overflow when used on a value
> equals or larger than 32 (NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_DURATION and afterwards).
> 
> Since 'filled' member in station_info changed to u64, BIT_ULL macro
> should be used with all NL80211_STA_INFO_* attribute types instead of BIT
> to prevent future possible bugs when one will use BIT macro for higher
> attributes by mistake.
> 
> This commit cleans up all usages of BIT macro with the above field
> in wireless-drivers by changing it to BIT_ULL instead. In addition, there are
> some places which don't use BIT nor BIT_ULL macros so align those as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Omer Efrat <omer.efrat@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

22d0d2fafca9 wireless-drivers: use BIT_ULL for NL80211_STA_INFO_ attribute types

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10468745/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches




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