Commit 0d2fad7
net: macb: avoid dealing with endianness in macb_set_hwaddr()
[ Upstream commit 70a5ce8 ]
bp->dev->dev_addr is of type `unsigned char *`. Casting it to a u32
pointer and dereferencing implies dealing manually with endianness,
which is error-prone.
Replace by calls to get_unaligned_le32|le16() helpers.
This was found using sparse:
⟩ make C=2 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.o
warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
expected unsigned int [usertype] bottom
got restricted __le32 [usertype]
warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
expected unsigned short [usertype] top
got restricted __le16 [usertype]
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Reviewed-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923-macb-fixes-v6-5-772d655cdeb6@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>1 parent c691d6a commit 0d2fad7
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