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 <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  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);
>>  
>>
>>
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