From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:06:32 +0000 (-0700) Subject: netdevice: demote the type of some dev_addr_set() helpers X-Git-Tag: block-5.16-2021-11-13~96^2~212^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=40af35fdf79c77e19c597e47cc8fe9a8e200de30;p=linux-block.git netdevice: demote the type of some dev_addr_set() helpers __dev_addr_set() and dev_addr_mod() and pretty low level, let the arguments be void, there's no chance for confusion in callers converted to use them. Keep u8 in dev_addr_set() because some of the callers are converted from a loop and we want to make sure assignments are not from an array of a different type. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 0723c1314ea2..f33af341bfb2 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -4643,7 +4643,7 @@ void __hw_addr_init(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *list); /* Functions used for device addresses handling */ static inline void -__dev_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr, size_t len) +__dev_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const void *addr, size_t len) { memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr, len); } @@ -4655,7 +4655,7 @@ static inline void dev_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr) static inline void dev_addr_mod(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int offset, - const u8 *addr, size_t len) + const void *addr, size_t len) { memcpy(&dev->dev_addr[offset], addr, len); }