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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IB/core: replace memcpy with ether_addr_copy
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:06:32AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 21:11 +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote:
> > Use ether_addr_copy to copy an ethernet address of size ETH_ALEN
> > instead of memcpy.
> []
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> []
> > @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ int rdma_addr_find_l2_eth_by_grh(const union ib_gid *sgid,
> > if (ret)
> > return ret;
> >
> > - memcpy(dmac, dev_addr.dst_dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
> > + ether_addr_copy(dmac, dev_addr.dst_dev_addr);
> > dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, dev_addr.bound_dev_if);
> > if (!dev)
> > return -ENODEV;
> > @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ int rdma_addr_find_smac_by_sgid(union ib_gid *sgid, u8 *smac, u16 *vlan_id)
> > if (ret)
> > return ret;
> >
> > - memcpy(smac, dev_addr.src_dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
> > + ether_addr_copy(smac, dev_addr.src_dev_addr);
> > return ret;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdma_addr_find_smac_by_sgid);
>
> Both dmac and smac are function arguments.
> What guarantees these to be
> aligned properly?
>
Yes, you are correct!
The arguments should be a pointer to a six byte Ethernet address.

Apologies!

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