netdev - Re: question about drivers/net/cpmac.c

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Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:39:51 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia@...u.dk
Cc:	florian@...nwrt.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about drivers/net/cpmac.c

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:22:54 +0100 (CET)

> The function __devinit cpmac_probe in the file drivers/net/cpmac.c 
> contains the following code:
> 
> memcpy(dev->dev_addr, pdata->dev_addr, sizeof(dev->dev_addr));
> 
> Is it correct that the size of the pointer is what is wanted?

Everything that does sizeof(netdev->dev_addr) is a bug.

At some point we changed netdev->dev_addr from an array of chars to a
pointer to a dynamically allocated buffer.

So these cases worked before that change and need to be updated
in order to be correct.

Looking quickly there are a couple of these things under
drivers/net

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