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authorThierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>2019-02-06 13:30:18 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-02-06 13:40:08 -0800
commitdeedf1feb255c7a390309f615e50de37cb82fb61 (patch)
tree6bd19596f8d8862ae28b99259db0c62ae7f24ab2 /drivers/net/ethernet/realtek
parentr8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present (diff)
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r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing
Read MAC address 32-bit at a time and manually extract the individual bytes. This avoids pointer aliasing and gives the compiler a better chance of optimizing the operation. Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/realtek')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index 501891be7c56..1dd72137fd53 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -7113,12 +7113,21 @@ static int rtl_alloc_irq(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
static void rtl_read_mac_address(struct rtl8169_private *tp,
u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN])
{
+ u32 value;
+
/* Get MAC address */
switch (tp->mac_version) {
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35 ... RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38:
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_40 ... RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_51:
- *(u32 *)&mac_addr[0] = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe0, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
- *(u16 *)&mac_addr[4] = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe4, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
+ value = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe0, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
+ mac_addr[0] = (value >> 0) & 0xff;
+ mac_addr[1] = (value >> 8) & 0xff;
+ mac_addr[2] = (value >> 16) & 0xff;
+ mac_addr[3] = (value >> 24) & 0xff;
+
+ value = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe4, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
+ mac_addr[4] = (value >> 0) & 0xff;
+ mac_addr[5] = (value >> 8) & 0xff;
break;
default:
break;
@@ -7316,7 +7325,8 @@ static int rtl_get_ether_clk(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
{
const struct rtl_cfg_info *cfg = rtl_cfg_infos + ent->driver_data;
- u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(4) = {};
+ /* align to u16 for is_valid_ether_addr() */
+ u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2) = {};
struct rtl8169_private *tp;
struct net_device *dev;
int chipset, region, i;