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Message-ID: <7fc849f7-c178-d13e-e9cf-d107a9f73c61@m4x.org> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:30:12 +0200 From: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org> To: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>, Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>, Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage On 22/08/16 21:38, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > On 22-8-2016 15:03, Nicolas Iooss wrote: >> On 05/08/16 22:34, Nicolas Iooss wrote: [...] >>> Fixes: 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code") >>> Cc: stable@....kernel.org > > Ah, so you did something wrong after all :-p. The email address should > be 'stable@...r.kernel.org'. Thanks for spotting this! I'll fix this address. >>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org> >>> --- >>> >>> scripts/checkpatch.pl reports a warning: "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or >>> ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()". Because some files in >>> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/ still use memcmp() >>> to compare addresses and because I do not know whether pmksa->bssid is >>> always aligned, I did not follow this warning. > > As most of this is done in slow path, I prefer memcmp() as I do not want > to check alignment for minimal performance gain. OK. >>> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 4 ++-- >>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c >>> index 2628d5e12c64..aceab77cd95a 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c >>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c >>> @@ -3884,11 +3884,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev, >>> if (!check_vif_up(ifp->vif)) >>> return -EIO; >>> >>> - brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", &pmksa->bssid); >>> + brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", pmksa->bssid); >>> >>> npmk = le32_to_cpu(cfg->pmk_list.npmk); >>> for (i = 0; i < npmk; i++) >>> - if (!memcmp(&pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN)) >>> + if (!memcmp(pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN)) > > I find '&pmk[i].bssid' confusing so maybe you could change it to > '&pmk[i].bssid[0]' or 'pmk[i].bssid' as I think these two are > essentially the same. I agree the three ways of writing this share the same meaning. I'll send a v2 with 'pmk[i].bssid'. > > Regards, > Arend Thanks for your review! Nicolas
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