netdev - [PATCH net] etherdevice: use __dev_addr

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Message-Id: <20211004230140.2547271-1-kuba@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon,  4 Oct 2021 16:01:40 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] etherdevice: use __dev_addr_set()

Andrew points out that eth_hw_addr_set() replaces memcpy()
calls so we can't use ether_addr_copy() which assumes
both arguments are 2-bytes aligned.

Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/etherdevice.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index e7b2e5fd8d24..c8442d954d19 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static inline void ether_addr_copy(u8 *dst, const u8 *src)
  */
 static inline void eth_hw_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)
 {
-	ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, addr);
+	__dev_addr_set(dev, addr, ETH_ALEN);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.31.1