[PATCH net] net: sundance: fix sign extension of the octet counters

From: Rand Deeb

Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 19:45:17 EST


get_stats() adds the upper halves of the 32-bit TxOctets and RxOctets
hardware counters to the byte statistics with

dev->stats.tx_bytes += ioread16(ioaddr + TxOctetsHigh) << 16;

On architectures that use the ioread16() from asm-generic/io.h, which
returns u16, the value is promoted to int before the shift. When the
high word is 0x8000 or more, the result does not fit in a positive int
and ends up negative, and adding it to the unsigned long counter
sign-extends it. On 64-bit kernels tx_bytes and rx_bytes then end up
2^32 lower than they should be. x86 and m68k are not affected, because
their ioread16() comes from asm-generic/iomap.h and returns unsigned int.

Cast the high word to u32 before shifting, so the result is the same on
all architectures.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Rand Deeb <rand.sec96@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.c
index 58873fcd3..cbb1f1fe1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.c
@@ -1545,9 +1545,9 @@ static struct net_device_stats *get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
np->xstats.rx_mcasts += ioread8(ioaddr + StatsMcastRx);

dev->stats.tx_bytes += ioread16(ioaddr + TxOctetsLow);
- dev->stats.tx_bytes += ioread16(ioaddr + TxOctetsHigh) << 16;
+ dev->stats.tx_bytes += (u32)ioread16(ioaddr + TxOctetsHigh) << 16;
dev->stats.rx_bytes += ioread16(ioaddr + RxOctetsLow);
- dev->stats.rx_bytes += ioread16(ioaddr + RxOctetsHigh) << 16;
+ dev->stats.rx_bytes += (u32)ioread16(ioaddr + RxOctetsHigh) << 16;

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&np->statlock, flags);


base-commit: 4cbdd58dfa7aaad679bf62f81cdbc96a6cb7c6ae
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2.39.5