ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/networking/ping.c b/networking/ping.c
index 2f331910e..9db3180f1 100644
--- a/networking/ping.c
+++ b/networking/ping.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static unsigned datalen; /* intentionally uninitialized to work around gcc bug *
 static int if_index;
 
 static unsigned long ntransmitted, nreceived, nrepeats, pingcount;
-static int myid;
+static uint16_t myid;
 static unsigned tmin = UINT_MAX, tmax;
 static unsigned long tsum;
 static char rcvd_tbl[MAX_DUP_CHK / 8];
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ int ping_main(int argc, char **argv)
                         source_lsa = xdotted2sockaddr(opt_I, 0);
                 }
         }
-        myid = (int16_t) getpid();
+        myid = (uint16_t) getpid();
         hostname = argv[optind];
 #if ENABLE_PING6
         if (option_mask32 & OPT_IPV4)