Parameters 'failure_count' and 'timer' was declared as unsigned short and then there was being casted to u16 inside cpu_to_le16 to make the assignation. Just declare them as 'u16' and avoid casting at all. Signed-off-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>