This patch focuses on fixing the following warning generated
by checkpatch.pl for the file rxtx.c :
Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses
are __aligned(2)
The changes were applied using the following coccinelle rule:
@@ expression e1, e2; @@
- memcpy(e1, e2, ETH_ALEN);
+ ether_addr_copy(e1, e2);
According to ether_addr_copy() description and functionality,
all Ethernet addresses should align to the u16 datatype.
Here is the output of pahole for the relevant datastructures:
struct pmkid_candidate {
NDIS_802_11_MAC_ADDRESS BSSID; /* 0 6 */
/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
long unsigned int Flags; /* 8 4 */
/* size: 12, cachelines: 1, members: 2 */
/* sum members: 10, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */
/* last cacheline: 12 bytes */
};
Signed-off-by: Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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