[PATCH] Fix an endian bug in dbus properties.

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 17:24 +0100, Sylvestre Gallon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patch to allow the use of Frequency and Signal DBus
> properties for Big Endian targets.
> 
> I have tried NetworkManager on a powerpc target (BigEndian) and I find
> that these properties does not work (always 100% for Signal and 0 for
> Frequency). After some investigation I find that the bug come from an
> endian problem in wpa_supplicant (u32 to u16 data loss).

Good catch.  Looks correct to me.

Dan

> Cheers,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sylvestre Gallon <ccna.syl at gmail.com>
> ---
>  wpa_supplicant/dbus/dbus_new_handlers.c |    8 ++++++--
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/dbus/dbus_new_handlers.c
> b/wpa_supplicant/dbus/dbus_new_handlers.c
> index e3526d4..b03f1d7 100644
> --- a/wpa_supplicant/dbus/dbus_new_handlers.c
> +++ b/wpa_supplicant/dbus/dbus_new_handlers.c
> @@ -2809,13 +2809,15 @@ dbus_bool_t
> wpas_dbus_getter_bss_signal(DBusMessageIter *iter,
>  {
>         struct bss_handler_args *args = user_data;
>         struct wpa_bss *res;
> +       s16 level;
> 
>         res = get_bss_helper(args, error, __func__);
>         if (!res)
>                 return FALSE;
> 
> +       level = (s16)res->level;
>         return wpas_dbus_simple_property_getter(iter, DBUS_TYPE_INT16,
> -                                               &res->level, error);
> +                                               &level, error);
>  }
> 
> 
> @@ -2833,13 +2835,15 @@ dbus_bool_t
> wpas_dbus_getter_bss_frequency(DBusMessageIter *iter,
>  {
>         struct bss_handler_args *args = user_data;
>         struct wpa_bss *res;
> +       u16 freq;
> 
>         res = get_bss_helper(args, error, __func__);
>         if (!res)
>                 return FALSE;
> 
> +       freq = (u16)res->freq;
>         return wpas_dbus_simple_property_getter(iter, DBUS_TYPE_UINT16,
> -                                               &res->freq, error);
> +                                               &freq, error);
>  }
> 
>