net: mac802154: comparision issue of type cast, finding by EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W
authorChen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:49:55 +0000 (00:49 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:29:04 +0000 (12:29 -0400)
Change MAC802154_CHAN_NONE from ~(u8)0 to 0xff, or the comparison in
mac802154_wpan_xmit() for ``chan == MAC802154_CHAN_NONE'' will not
succeed.

This bug can be boiled down to ``u8 foo = 0xff; if (foo == ~(u8)0)
[...] else [...]'' where the condition will always take the else
branch.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/mac802154/mac802154.h

index a4dcaf1dd4b6e2cf29c47a1f4cc2084fe16ca735..703c1210d2230760f00629cd7302d2909713f235 100644 (file)
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ struct mac802154_sub_if_data {
 
 #define MAC802154_MAX_XMIT_ATTEMPTS    3
 
-#define MAC802154_CHAN_NONE            (~(u8)0) /* No channel is assigned */
+#define MAC802154_CHAN_NONE            0xff /* No channel is assigned */
 
 extern struct ieee802154_reduced_mlme_ops mac802154_mlme_reduced;
 extern struct ieee802154_mlme_ops mac802154_mlme_wpan;