From: Alexander Wilhelm <alexander.wilhelm@westermo.com>
To: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@kernel.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath12k@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] wifi: ath12k: fix MAC address copy on big endian
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:41:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akYkNQTB5DPwzYXZ@FUE-ALEWI-WINX> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4d0c9c0-6d21-4426-8403-209f77ab1387@oss.qualcomm.com>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 04:12:00PM +0800, Baochen Qiang wrote:
>
>
> On 6/29/2026 3:55 PM, Alexander Wilhelm wrote:
> > The ath12k_dp_get_mac_addr function performs a simple memcpy from a
> > CPU-native data types into an u8 array. On a big-endian architecture, this
> > later results in a null‑pointer dereference. Convert the data to
>
> Alex, did you find a time to investigate the root cause of the null pointer?
Sorry, I haven't had a chance to look into it yet. However, it's on my to-do
list. I will try to reproduce the issue again as soon as possible.
Best regards
Alexander Wilhelm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-02 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-29 7:55 [PATCH RESEND] wifi: ath12k: fix MAC address copy on big endian Alexander Wilhelm
2026-07-02 8:12 ` Baochen Qiang
2026-07-02 8:41 ` Alexander Wilhelm [this message]
2026-07-02 9:17 ` Alexander Wilhelm
2026-07-02 9:56 ` Baochen Qiang
2026-07-02 12:06 ` Alexander Wilhelm
2026-07-03 4:04 ` Baochen Qiang
2026-07-03 6:36 ` Alexander Wilhelm
2026-07-03 7:10 ` Baochen Qiang
2026-07-03 7:48 ` Alexander Wilhelm
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