r8169: avoid potentially misaligned access when getting mac address
authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Wed, 2 May 2018 19:39:59 +0000 (21:39 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 2 May 2018 20:23:49 +0000 (16:23 -0400)
Interpreting a member of an u16 array as u32 may result in a misaligned
access. Also it's not really intuitive to define a mac address variable
as array of three u16 words. Therefore use an array of six bytes that
is properly aligned for 32 bit access.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c

index d72b3fd..6fce3cc 100644 (file)
@@ -7767,14 +7767,14 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 
        /* Get MAC address */
        switch (tp->mac_version) {
-               u16 mac_addr[3];
+               u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(4);
        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[2] = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe4, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
+               *(u16 *)&mac_addr[4] = rtl_eri_read(tp, 0xe4, ERIAR_EXGMAC);
 
-               if (is_valid_ether_addr((u8 *)mac_addr))
-                       rtl_rar_set(tp, (u8 *)mac_addr);
+               if (is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr))
+                       rtl_rar_set(tp, mac_addr);
                break;
        default:
                break;