Patch "rtl8xxxu: Fix big-endian problem reporting mactime" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rtl8xxxu: Fix big-endian problem reporting mactime

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rtl8xxxu-fix-big-endian-problem-reporting-mactime.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.

From 8a55698f2f29d227825173420d7b99b9277ca88c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jes Sorensen <redacted>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:40:55 -0400
Subject: rtl8xxxu: Fix big-endian problem reporting mactime

From: Jes Sorensen <redacted>

commit 8a55698f2f29d227825173420d7b99b9277ca88c upstream.

The full RX descriptor is converted so converting tsfl again would
return it to it's original endian value.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h      |    4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h

@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ struct rtl8xxxu_rxdesc16 {
 	u32 pattern1match:1;
 	u32 pattern0match:1;
 #endif
-	__le32 tsfl;
+	u32 tsfl;
 #if 0
 	u32 bassn:12;
 	u32 bavld:1;

@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ struct rtl8xxxu_rxdesc24 {
 	u32 ldcp:1;
 	u32 splcp:1;
 #endif
-	__le32 tsfl;
+	u32 tsfl;
 };
 
 struct rtl8xxxu_txdesc32 {
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c

@@ -5224,7 +5224,7 @@ int rtl8xxxu_parse_rxdesc16(struct rtl8x
 			rtl8xxxu_rx_parse_phystats(priv, rx_status, phy_stats,
 						   rx_desc->rxmcs);
 
-		rx_status->mactime = le32_to_cpu(rx_desc->tsfl);
+		rx_status->mactime = rx_desc->tsfl;
 		rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_START;
 
 		if (!rx_desc->swdec)

@@ -5294,7 +5294,7 @@ int rtl8xxxu_parse_rxdesc24(struct rtl8x
 		rtl8xxxu_rx_parse_phystats(priv, rx_status, phy_stats,
 					   rx_desc->rxmcs);
 
-	rx_status->mactime = le32_to_cpu(rx_desc->tsfl);
+	rx_status->mactime = rx_desc->tsfl;
 	rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_START;
 
 	if (!rx_desc->swdec)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com are

queue-4.8/rtl8xxxu-fix-memory-leak-in-handling-rxdesc16-packets.patch
queue-4.8/rtl8xxxu-fix-big-endian-problem-reporting-mactime.patch
queue-4.8/rtl8xxxu-fix-rtl8723bu-driver-reload-issue.patch