This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem to the 4.4-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: staging-rtl8712-fixed-little-endian-problem.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 12:02:55 CET 2017 From: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:59:46 +0100 Subject: staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem From: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 502c80744fcac6b16f28699469c70db499fe2f69 ] Fixed a sparse warning. Using function le16_to_cpus() to avoid double assignment. Signed-off-by: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline char *translate_scan(struc iwe.cmd = SIOCGIWMODE; memcpy((u8 *)&cap, r8712_get_capability_from_ie(pnetwork->network.IEs), 2); - cap = le16_to_cpu(cap); + le16_to_cpus(&cap); if (cap & (WLAN_CAPABILITY_IBSS | WLAN_CAPABILITY_BSS)) { if (cap & WLAN_CAPABILITY_BSS) iwe.u.mode = (u32)IW_MODE_MASTER; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/staging-rtl8712-fixed-little-endian-problem.patch