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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2013-06-29 19:23:18 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-07-01 13:18:19 -0700
commit46ab9b347d677976b2b4072837cb4065839c0b80 (patch)
tree39a7b23f5ab14eadbaa456ef1a29c9104db1b737
parenta5b87cc9e0538bf6680d431e0076d778e5bae38e (diff)
alx: fix MAC address alignment problem
In two places, parts of MAC addresses are used as u32/u16 values. This can cause alignment problems, use put_unaligned and get_unaligned to fix this. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/hw.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/hw.c
index aed48a7f1ca..ea99e5d8743 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/hw.c
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ static bool alx_read_macaddr(struct alx_hw *hw, u8 *addr)
mac1 = alx_read_mem32(hw, ALX_STAD1);
/* addr should be big-endian */
- *(__be32 *)(addr + 2) = cpu_to_be32(mac0);
- *(__be16 *)addr = cpu_to_be16(mac1);
+ put_unaligned(cpu_to_be32(mac0), (__be32 *)(addr + 2));
+ put_unaligned(cpu_to_be16(mac1), (__be16 *)addr);
return is_valid_ether_addr(addr);
}
@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ void alx_set_macaddr(struct alx_hw *hw, const u8 *addr)
u32 val;
/* for example: 00-0B-6A-F6-00-DC * STAD0=6AF600DC, STAD1=000B */
- val = be32_to_cpu(*(__be32 *)(addr + 2));
+ val = be32_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__be32 *)(addr + 2)));
alx_write_mem32(hw, ALX_STAD0, val);
- val = be16_to_cpu(*(__be16 *)addr);
+ val = be16_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__be16 *)addr));
alx_write_mem32(hw, ALX_STAD1, val);
}