From 850d0cbc9171f63f0418afffb0d89a84db927851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:40:51 +0200
Subject: switchdev: remove pointers from switchdev objects

When object is used in deferred work, we cannot use pointers in
switchdev object structures because the memory they point at may be already
used by someone else. So rather do local copy of the value.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/dsa/slave.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'net/dsa')

diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c
index 84cd8639e37b..b0b8da0f5af8 100644
--- a/net/dsa/slave.c
+++ b/net/dsa/slave.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static int dsa_slave_port_fdb_dump(struct net_device *dev,
 		if (ret < 0)
 			break;
 
-		fdb->addr = addr;
+		ether_addr_copy(fdb->addr, addr);
 		fdb->vid = vid;
 		fdb->ndm_state = is_static ? NUD_NOARP : NUD_REACHABLE;
 
-- 
cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b