net/mlx5e: Prevent casting overflow
authorGal Pressman <galp@mellanox.com>
Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:07:59 +0000 (19:07 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 8 Sep 2016 23:15:29 +0000 (16:15 -0700)
On 64 bits architectures unsigned long is longer than u32,
casting to unsigned long will result in overflow.
We need to first allocate an unsigned long variable, then assign the
wanted value.

Fixes: 665bc53969d7 ('net/mlx5e: Use new ethtool get/set link ksettings API')
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galp@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c

index d0cf8fa226591f5d1c3f785ecdc80e285d391d2f..98e1a4a442689c1233a22a754dec22ec6f6ee25e 100644 (file)
@@ -659,9 +659,10 @@ out:
 static void ptys2ethtool_supported_link(unsigned long *supported_modes,
                                        u32 eth_proto_cap)
 {
+       unsigned long proto_cap = eth_proto_cap;
        int proto;
 
-       for_each_set_bit(proto, (unsigned long *)&eth_proto_cap, MLX5E_LINK_MODES_NUMBER)
+       for_each_set_bit(proto, &proto_cap, MLX5E_LINK_MODES_NUMBER)
                bitmap_or(supported_modes, supported_modes,
                          ptys2ethtool_table[proto].supported,
                          __ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_MASK_NBITS);
@@ -670,9 +671,10 @@ static void ptys2ethtool_supported_link(unsigned long *supported_modes,
 static void ptys2ethtool_adver_link(unsigned long *advertising_modes,
                                    u32 eth_proto_cap)
 {
+       unsigned long proto_cap = eth_proto_cap;
        int proto;
 
-       for_each_set_bit(proto, (unsigned long *)&eth_proto_cap, MLX5E_LINK_MODES_NUMBER)
+       for_each_set_bit(proto, &proto_cap, MLX5E_LINK_MODES_NUMBER)
                bitmap_or(advertising_modes, advertising_modes,
                          ptys2ethtool_table[proto].advertised,
                          __ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_MASK_NBITS);