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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/7] net: validate MAC address directly in dev_set_mac_address()
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    On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 17:52 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
    > Validate the given MAC address directly in dev_set_mac_address()
    > if a .ndo_validate_addr function is available before calling
    > the .ndo_set_mac_address function.
    >
    > Changed .ndo_validate_addr to take a second parameter containing
    > a sockaddr struct to be checked instead of the net_device dev_addr.
    > The behaviour of .ndo_validate_addr is now: if the second parameter
    > is NULL the net_device->dev_addr gets validate, if != NULL
    > the given parameter/sockaddr gets validated instead.
    [...]

    The caller is assumed to have validated the address family, so why not
    just pass a pointer to the hardware address (u8 *), and get rid of the
    special case for NULL?

    That is, dev_set_mac_address would call:
    ops->ndo_validate_addr(dev, sa->sa_data);
    and dev_open would call:
    ops->ndo_validate_addr(dev, dev->dev_addr);

    Ben.

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    Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
    Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
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