From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:42:24 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] synclink_gt fix size of register value storage
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~38713
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35fbd397f0ce2addd5ab889bf0bcd95f45837e3e;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

[PATCH] synclink_gt fix size of register value storage

Fix incorrect variable size used to hold register value.  This bug might
wipe out a portion of the TCR value when setting the interface options.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
index 07c9be6a6bbf..a85a60a93deb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
@@ -2630,7 +2630,7 @@ static int get_interface(struct slgt_info *info, int __user *if_mode)
 static int set_interface(struct slgt_info *info, int if_mode)
 {
  	unsigned long flags;
-	unsigned char val;
+	unsigned short val;
 
 	DBGINFO(("%s set_interface=%x)\n", info->device_name, if_mode));
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&info->lock,flags);