linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 18/59] cfg80211: fix a type issue in ieee80211_chandef_to_operating

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Date:   Mon,  8 Oct 2018 20:31:25 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 18/59] cfg80211: fix a type issue in ieee80211_chandef_to_operating_class()

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

------------------

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

[ Upstream commit 8442938c3a2177ba16043b3a935f2c78266ad399 ]

The "chandef->center_freq1" variable is a u32 but "freq" is a u16 so we
are truncating away the high bits.  I noticed this bug because in commit
9cf0a0b4b64a ("cfg80211: Add support for 60GHz band channels 5 and 6")
we made "freq <= 56160 + 2160 * 6" a valid requency when before it was
only "freq <= 56160 + 2160 * 4" that was valid.  It introduces a static
checker warning:

    net/wireless/util.c:1571 ieee80211_chandef_to_operating_class()
    warn: always true condition '(freq <= 56160 + 2160 * 6) => (0-u16max <= 69120)'

But really we probably shouldn't have been truncating the high bits
away to begin with.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/wireless/util.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@ bool ieee80211_chandef_to_operating_clas
 					  u8 *op_class)
 {
 	u8 vht_opclass;
-	u16 freq = chandef->center_freq1;
+	u32 freq = chandef->center_freq1;
 
 	if (freq >= 2412 && freq <= 2472) {
 		if (chandef->width > NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_40)