[ 041/133] sierra_net: Endianess bug fix.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 18:54:39 EST


3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 2120c52da6fe741454a60644018ad2a6abd957ac ]

I discovered I couldn't get sierra_net to work on a powerpc. Turns out
the firmware attribute check assumes the system is little endian and
hence fails because the attributes is a 16 bit value.

Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ static int sierra_net_get_fw_attr(struct
return -EIO;
}

- *datap = *attrdata;
+ *datap = le16_to_cpu(*attrdata);

kfree(attrdata);
return result;


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