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authorHeiner Kallweit2018-05-02 21:39:59 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller2018-05-02 22:23:49 +0200
commit353af85ed811d84ca349c6d6e5df8055eeab5bd5 (patch)
treed67ae48b68eb714455252d318b4c6eb5e508c777 /drivers/net/ethernet
parentr8169: improve PCI config space access (diff)
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r8169: avoid potentially misaligned access when getting mac address
Interpreting a member of an u16 array as u32 may result in a misaligned access. Also it's not really intuitive to define a mac address variable as array of three u16 words. Therefore use an array of six bytes that is properly aligned for 32 bit access. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index d72b3fdf853a..6fce3cc86ae3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -7767,14 +7767,14 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
/* Get MAC address */
switch (tp->mac_version) {
- u16 mac_addr[3];
+ u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(4);
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35 ... RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38:
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_40 ... RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_51:
*(u32 *)&mac_addr[0] = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe0, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
- *(u16 *)&mac_addr[2] = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe4, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
+ *(u16 *)&mac_addr[4] = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe4, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
- if (is_valid_ether_addr((u8 *)mac_addr))
- rtl_rar_set(tp, (u8 *)mac_addr);
+ if (is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr))
+ rtl_rar_set(tp, mac_addr);
break;
default:
break;