This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtl8xxxu: Fix big-endian problem reporting mactime
to the 4.8-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:
rtl8xxxu-fix-big-endian-problem-reporting-mactime.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8a55698f2f29d227825173420d7b99b9277ca88c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:40:55 -0400
Subject: rtl8xxxu: Fix big-endian problem reporting mactime
From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8a55698f2f29d227825173420d7b99b9277ca88c upstream.
The full RX descriptor is converted so converting tsfl again would
return it to it's original endian value.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h | 4 ++--
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ struct rtl8xxxu_rxdesc16 {
u32 pattern1match:1;
u32 pattern0match:1;
#endif
- __le32 tsfl;
+ u32 tsfl;
#if 0
u32 bassn:12;
u32 bavld:1;
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ struct rtl8xxxu_rxdesc24 {
u32 ldcp:1;
u32 splcp:1;
#endif
- __le32 tsfl;
+ u32 tsfl;
};
struct rtl8xxxu_txdesc32 {
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
@@ -5224,7 +5224,7 @@ int rtl8xxxu_parse_rxdesc16(struct rtl8x
rtl8xxxu_rx_parse_phystats(priv, rx_status, phy_stats,
rx_desc->rxmcs);
- rx_status->mactime = le32_to_cpu(rx_desc->tsfl);
+ rx_status->mactime = rx_desc->tsfl;
rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_START;
if (!rx_desc->swdec)
@@ -5294,7 +5294,7 @@ int rtl8xxxu_parse_rxdesc24(struct rtl8x
rtl8xxxu_rx_parse_phystats(priv, rx_status, phy_stats,
rx_desc->rxmcs);
- rx_status->mactime = le32_to_cpu(rx_desc->tsfl);
+ rx_status->mactime = rx_desc->tsfl;
rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_START;
if (!rx_desc->swdec)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/rtl8xxxu-fix-memory-leak-in-handling-rxdesc16-packets.patch
queue-4.8/rtl8xxxu-fix-big-endian-problem-reporting-mactime.patch
queue-4.8/rtl8xxxu-fix-rtl8723bu-driver-reload-issue.patch
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