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Date:   Sun, 4 Oct 2020 10:01:23 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Ross Schmidt' <ross.schm.dev@...il.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/8] staging: rtl8723bs: replace RND4 with round_up()

From: Ross Schmidt
> Sent: 04 October 2020 02:18
> 
> Use round_up instead of define RND4.

RND4 was also particularly horrid!
...
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_security.c
> b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_security.c
> index 7f74e1d05b3a..159d32ace2bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_security.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_security.c
> @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ void rtw_wep_encrypt(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *pxmitframe)
>  				arcfour_encrypt(&mycontext, payload+length, crc, 4);
> 
>  				pframe += pxmitpriv->frag_len;
> -				pframe = (u8 *)RND4((SIZE_PTR)(pframe));
> +				pframe = (u8 *)round_up((SIZE_PTR)(pframe), 4);

I also suspect this is equivalent to:
				pframe == round_up(pxmitpriv->frag_len, 4);

Does make one wonder whether the skipped bytes need to be
zeroed though.

	David

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