linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND net-next 7/7] bonding: use ether_addr_equal_64bits to instead of ether_addr

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Message-ID: <52C4BD2C.3080407@huawei.com>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:13:16 +0800
From:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND net-next 7/7] bonding: use ether_addr_equal_64bits
 to instead of ether_addr_equal

The net_device.dev_addr have more than 2 bytes of additional data after
the mac addr, so it is safe to use the ether_addr_equal_64bits().

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index e4d5018..94d07d2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ err_free:
 err_undo_flags:
 	/* Enslave of first slave has failed and we need to fix master's mac */
 	if (!bond_has_slaves(bond) &&
-	    ether_addr_equal(bond_dev->dev_addr, slave_dev->dev_addr))
+	    ether_addr_equal_64bits(bond_dev->dev_addr, slave_dev->dev_addr))
 		eth_hw_addr_random(bond_dev);
 
 	return res;
@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ static int __bond_release_one(struct net_device *bond_dev,
 	bond->current_arp_slave = NULL;
 
 	if (!all && !bond->params.fail_over_mac) {
-		if (ether_addr_equal(bond_dev->dev_addr, slave->perm_hwaddr) &&
+		if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(bond_dev->dev_addr, slave->perm_hwaddr) &&
 		    bond_has_slaves(bond))
 			pr_warn("%s: Warning: the permanent HWaddr of %s - %pM - is still in use by %s. Set the HWaddr of %s to a different address to avoid conflicts.\n",
 				   bond_dev->name, slave_dev->name,
-- 
1.8.0


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