[PATCH] staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy()
Larry Finger
Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Mon May 18 00:09:44 UTC 2015
On 05/17/2015 03:57 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> This patch fixes to use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy()
>
> Encounter this by applying checkpatch.pl against this file:
> WARNING: Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy()
> if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2)
>
> Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel at googlemail.com>
> ---
Can you assure us that you have carefully checked the the source address of
addr->sa_data and padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr are suitably aligned? At a
minimum, have you tested this change on real hardware?
Larry
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
> index 6e776e5..0d27df6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int r871x_net_set_mac_address(struct net_device *pnetdev, void *p)
> struct sockaddr *addr = p;
>
> if (padapter->bup == false)
> - memcpy(pnetdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
> + ether_addr_copy(pnetdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ static int netdev_open(struct net_device *pnetdev)
> goto netdev_open_error;
> if (r8712_initmac == NULL)
> /* Use the mac address stored in the Efuse */
> - memcpy(pnetdev->dev_addr,
> - padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr, ETH_ALEN);
> + ether_addr_copy(pnetdev->dev_addr,
> + padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr);
> else {
> /* We have to inform f/w to use user-supplied MAC
> * address.
> @@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ static int netdev_open(struct net_device *pnetdev)
> * the eeprompriv.mac_addr should store the mac which
> * users specify.
> */
> - memcpy(padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr,
> - pnetdev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
> + ether_addr_copy(padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr,
> + pnetdev->dev_addr);
> }
> if (start_drv_threads(padapter) != _SUCCESS)
> goto netdev_open_error;
>
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