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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2012-03-01 15:22:09 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-03-05 15:38:31 -0500
commit888d04dfbe7e09f930fdaafb257cce2c54c9c3f3 (patch)
treecdf0c4d4008860fd91db31bcc620a8ecd3d95bc1 /net/mac80211/mesh.c
parentmac80211: use 16 bit alignment for the if_ibss bssid field (diff)
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mac80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp
Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mesh.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mesh.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index c707c8bf6d2c..e5fbb7cf3562 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ int mesh_rmc_check(u8 *sa, struct ieee80211s_hdr *mesh_hdr,
kmem_cache_free(rm_cache, p);
--entries;
} else if ((seqnum == p->seqnum) &&
- (memcmp(sa, p->sa, ETH_ALEN) == 0))
+ (compare_ether_addr(sa, p->sa) == 0))
return -1;
}