Re: [PATCH] sfc: Replace memset with eth_zero_addr

From: Lucas Tanure
Date: Wed Jan 20 2016 - 06:49:12 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 1/20/2016 2:27 AM, Lucas Tanure wrote:
>
>> Use eth_zero_addr to assign the zero address to the given address array
>> instead of memset when second argument is address of zero.
>
>
> What address? memset() takes just 1 address. :-)

I mean the vf->mac, a pointer to a six-byte array containing the
Ethernet address.

>
>> Signed-off-by: Lucas Tanure <tanure@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10_sriov.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10_sriov.c
>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10_sriov.c
>> index 3c17f27..10f60db 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10_sriov.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10_sriov.c
>> @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ int efx_ef10_sriov_set_vf_mac(struct efx_nic *efx, int
>> vf_i, u8 *mac)
>> return 0;
>>
>> fail:
>> - memset(vf->mac, 0, ETH_ALEN);
>> + eth_zero_addr(vf->mac);
>> return rc;
>> }
>>
>
> MBR, Sergei
>

Thanks, Tanure