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fddi: 64 bit bug in smt_add_para()

Message ID 20120901195740.GG20741@mwanda
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Dan Carpenter Sept. 1, 2012, 7:57 p.m. UTC
The intent was to set 4 bytes of data so that's why the sp_len is set
to 4 on the next line.  The cast to u_long pointer clears 8 bytes
on 64 bit arches.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Code auditing work.  I don't have this hardware.  This bug is old.

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Comments

David Miller Sept. 2, 2012, 2:46 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:57:40 -0700

> The intent was to set 4 bytes of data so that's why the sp_len is set
> to 4 on the next line.  The cast to u_long pointer clears 8 bytes
> on 64 bit arches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Obvious enough, applied, thanks Dan.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c b/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c
index 24d8566..441b4dc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fddi/skfp/pmf.c
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@  void smt_add_para(struct s_smc *smc, struct s_pcon *pcon, u_short para,
 			sm_pm_get_ls(smc,port_to_mib(smc,port))) ;
 		break ;
 	case SMT_P_REASON :
-		* (u_long *) to = 0 ;
+		*(u32 *)to = 0 ;
 		sp_len = 4 ;
 		goto sp_done ;
 	case SMT_P1033 :			/* time stamp */