Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Antoine Tenart <> | Subject | [PATCH] net: pxa168_eth: avoid using signed char for bitops | Date | Fri, 3 Oct 2014 17:01:54 +0200 |
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Signedness bugs may occur when using signed char for bitops, depending on if the highest bit is ever used.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> ---
Dan reported a static checker warning: http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=141218246222535&w=2
This patch fixes it. Instead of using sa->sa_data we now use dev->dev_addr (of type unsigned char *) to avoid possible signedness issues.
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c index 24de41231593..c3b209cd0660 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c @@ -634,12 +634,12 @@ static int pxa168_eth_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *addr) memcpy(oldMac, dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN); memcpy(dev->dev_addr, sa->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); - mac_h = sa->sa_data[0] << 24; - mac_h |= sa->sa_data[1] << 16; - mac_h |= sa->sa_data[2] << 8; - mac_h |= sa->sa_data[3]; - mac_l = sa->sa_data[4] << 8; - mac_l |= sa->sa_data[5]; + mac_h = dev->dev_addr[0] << 24; + mac_h |= dev->dev_addr[1] << 16; + mac_h |= dev->dev_addr[2] << 8; + mac_h |= dev->dev_addr[3]; + mac_l = dev->dev_addr[4] << 8; + mac_l |= dev->dev_addr[5]; wrl(pep, MAC_ADDR_HIGH, mac_h); wrl(pep, MAC_ADDR_LOW, mac_l); -- 1.9.1
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