From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Omer Efrat <omer.efrat@tandemg.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] staging: use BIT_ULL for NL80211_STA_INFO_* attribute types
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:24:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180617102424.GA5705@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1529230056-18004-1-git-send-email-omer.efrat@tandemg.com>
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 01:07:36PM +0300, Omer Efrat 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 cfg80211 by changing it to BIT_ULL instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Omer Efrat <omer.efrat@tandemg.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-17 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-17 10:07 [PATCH v3 5/5] staging: use BIT_ULL for NL80211_STA_INFO_* attribute types Omer Efrat
2018-06-17 10:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-06-18 7:29 ` Kalle Valo
2018-06-18 7:40 ` Greg KH
2018-06-18 13:11 ` Kalle Valo
2018-06-18 13:22 ` Greg KH
2018-06-18 14:18 Omer Efrat
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