Re: [patch] staging: rtl8723au: incorrect use of ether_addr_copy()

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 15:46 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:26:11AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 13:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The return from myid() isn't aligned correctly for ether_addr_copy().
> > 
> > Hey Dan.
> > 
> > Actual evidence showing ether_addr_copy conversions
> > may not always be wise.
> > 
> > How did you find them?
> 
> I was just trying to see how common these kinds of bugs are.  It didn't
> take long to find, but my impression is that they are rare and I got
> lucky.  These kinds of bugs are tricky to find and we don't have any
> tools for it.

As far as I know, that's true too.

Jes, was the mac_addr field in this struct
ever __aligned(2)?

struct eeprom_priv {
       u8              bautoload_fail_flag;
       u8              bloadfile_fail_flag;
       u8              bloadmac_fail_flag;
       /* u8           bempty; */
       /* u8           sys_config; */
       u8              mac_addr[6];    /* PermanentAddress */
...
}

As far as I can tell from git history, it was
that way at the first check-in.

Dan, did you also look for any other alignment
defects in uses of any is_<foo>_ether_addr calls?