Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:28:05 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: use is_zero_ether_addr() instead of memcmp() | From | Wei Yongjun <> |
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On 08/23/2012 03:54 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 15:19 +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote: >> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> >> >> Using is_zero_ether_addr() instead of directly use >> memcmp() to determine if the ethernet address is all >> zeros. >> >> spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem. >> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) >> >> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> >> --- >> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c | 7 ++++--- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c >> index 1bb6b52..3cedfd9 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c >> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c >> @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ >> */ >> >> >> +#include <linux/etherdevice.h> >> + >> #include "rtllib.h" >> #include "dot11d.h" >> /* FIXME: add A freqs */ >> @@ -137,7 +139,6 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_wap(struct rtllib_device *ieee, >> { >> >> int ret = 0; >> - u8 zero[] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}; >> unsigned long flags; >> >> short ifup = ieee->proto_started; >> @@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_wap(struct rtllib_device *ieee, >> goto out; >> } >> >> - if (memcmp(temp->sa_data, zero, ETH_ALEN) == 0) { >> + if (is_zero_ether_addr(temp->sa_data)) { >> spin_lock_irqsave(&ieee->lock, flags); >> memcpy(ieee->current_network.bssid, temp->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); > BTW this looks suspicious : Why is it using memcpy() if temp->sa_data is > known to be zero ?
I see the if (..) is dup of the following memcpy() code, just used for return -1 for fast path.
rtl8192u does not has this check, and also do memcpy() temp->sa_data to bssid even if is zero addr.
> >> ieee->wap_set = 0; >> @@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_wap(struct rtllib_device *ieee, >> >> ieee->cannot_notify = false; >> memcpy(ieee->current_network.bssid, temp->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); >> - ieee->wap_set = (memcmp(temp->sa_data, zero, ETH_ALEN) != 0); >> + ieee->wap_set = (!is_zero_ether_addr(temp->sa_data)); >> > ieee->wap_set = !is_zero_ether_addr(temp->sa_data);
I will fix this and send the new patch.
> >> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ieee->lock, flags); >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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