[PATCH net-next v3 1/2] of: net: pass the dst buffer to of_get_mac_address()

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Thu Apr 8 02:10:30 AEST 2021


Am 2021-04-07 00:09, schrieb Michael Walle:
[..]
> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_net.c b/drivers/of/of_net.c
> index bc0a27de69d4..2d5d5e59aea5 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/of_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/of_net.c
> @@ -45,42 +45,35 @@ int of_get_phy_mode(struct device_node *np,
> phy_interface_t *interface)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_get_phy_mode);
> 
> -static const void *of_get_mac_addr(struct device_node *np, const char 
> *name)
> +static int of_get_mac_addr(struct device_node *np, const char *name, 
> u8 *addr)
>  {
>  	struct property *pp = of_find_property(np, name, NULL);
> 
> -	if (pp && pp->length == ETH_ALEN && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value))
> -		return pp->value;
> -	return NULL;
> +	if (pp && pp->length == ETH_ALEN && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value)) {
> +		ether_addr_copy(addr, pp->value);

Mh, I guess this should rather be memcpy(addr, pp->value, ETH_ALEN) 
because
ether_addr_copy() needs 2 byte aligned source and destination buffers.

-michael


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