This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ieee802154: handle iftypes as u32 to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-ieee802154-handle-iftypes-as-u32.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 384e4d53504ba5341fbdf54fa63bf18c324e68ab Author: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 11 22:09:16 2021 -0500 net: ieee802154: handle iftypes as u32 [ Upstream commit 451dc48c806a7ce9fbec5e7a24ccf4b2c936e834 ] This patch fixes an issue that an u32 netlink value is handled as a signed enum value which doesn't fit into the range of u32 netlink type. If it's handled as -1 value some BIT() evaluation ends in a shift-out-of-bounds issue. To solve the issue we set the to u32 max which is s32 "-1" value to keep backwards compatibility and let the followed enum values start counting at 0. This brings the compiler to never handle the enum as signed and a check if the value is above NL802154_IFTYPE_MAX should filter -1 out. Fixes: f3ea5e44231a ("ieee802154: add new interface command") Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112030916.685793-1-aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/net/nl802154.h b/include/net/nl802154.h index ddcee128f5d9a..145acb8f25095 100644 --- a/include/net/nl802154.h +++ b/include/net/nl802154.h @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ * */ +#include <linux/types.h> + #define NL802154_GENL_NAME "nl802154" enum nl802154_commands { @@ -150,10 +152,9 @@ enum nl802154_attrs { }; enum nl802154_iftype { - /* for backwards compatibility TODO */ - NL802154_IFTYPE_UNSPEC = -1, + NL802154_IFTYPE_UNSPEC = (~(__u32)0), - NL802154_IFTYPE_NODE, + NL802154_IFTYPE_NODE = 0, NL802154_IFTYPE_MONITOR, NL802154_IFTYPE_COORD,