diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index cdecf4eabe2a..f03fe72d358e 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 794760f750655d987499d7a5034519afc84af63b
+refs/heads/master: 70500f5443be1b27ea2c9ab71ce9dc2250af7b19
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c b/trunk/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c
index 4c36e63ae7b0..d64ad87db459 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c
@@ -174,7 +174,11 @@ static int wlan_ret_get_hw_spec(wlan_private * priv,
 	lbs_deb_cmd("GET_HW_SPEC: hardware interface 0x%x, hardware spec 0x%04x\n",
 	       hwspec->hwifversion, hwspec->version);
 
-	adapter->regioncode = le16_to_cpu(hwspec->regioncode);
+	/* Clamp region code to 8-bit since FW spec indicates that it should
+	 * only ever be 8-bit, even though the field size is 16-bit.  Some firmware
+	 * returns non-zero high 8 bits here.
+	 */
+	adapter->regioncode = le16_to_cpu(hwspec->regioncode) & 0xFF;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MRVDRV_MAX_REGION_CODE; i++) {
 		/* use the region code to search for the index */