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Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:22:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: use explicitly signed char
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To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
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From:   Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
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On 10/24/22 18:30, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> With char becoming unsigned by default, and with `char` alone being
> ambiguous and based on architecture, signed chars need to be marked
> explicitly as such. In this case, passing `char *extra` is part of the
> iw API, and that extra is mostly intended to be somewhat opaque. So just
> cast to `s8 *` for the sign test. This fixes warnings like:
> 
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c:459 rtllib_wx_set_essid() warn: impossible condition '(extra[i] < 0) => (0-255 < 0)'
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c
> index f9589c5b62ba..4563e3b5bd47 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_essid(struct rtllib_device *ieee,
>   	}
>   
>   	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
> -		if (extra[i] < 0) {
> +		if (((s8 *)extra)[i] < 0) {
>   			ret = -1;
>   			goto out;
>   		}

Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>