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Re: [PATCH] wl1251: fix sparse-generated warnings

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:04:02AM -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> @@ -191,11 +191,13 @@ static int wl1251_tx_send_packet(struct wl1251 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb,
> >>>      if (control->control.hw_key &&
> >>>          control->control.hw_key->alg == ALG_TKIP) {
> >>>              int hdrlen;
> >>> -            u16 fc;
> >>> +            __le16 fc;
> >>> +            u16 length;
> >>>              u8 *pos;
> [...]
> >>> +            length = le16_to_cpu(tx_hdr->length) + WL1251_TKIP_IV_SPACE;
> >>> +            tx_hdr->length = cpu_to_le16(length);
> >>
> >> ...which is treated correctly here.
> >
> > This is different. Here we are adding something to a __le16 value, not
> > calculating with pointers.
> 
> Just throwing in my 2 cents, unless there's some other reason to add the
> length temporary, here you can just do:
> 
>     le16_add_cpu(&tx_hdr->length, WL1251_TKIP_IV_SPACE);

Ah, thanks!  I thought there was something like that, but I couldn't remember. :-)

John
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