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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarnold@elsa.de
Subject: Re: [BUG 2.2/2.4/2.6] broken memsets in net/sk_mca.c (multicast)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:40:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040410014040.48cb037b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040410102040.022ffb3c.khali@linux-fr.org>

Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
>
> I just found two very weird memsets in drivers/net/sk_mca.c.

yup.


--- 25/drivers/net/sk_mca.c~sk_mca-multicast-fix	2004-04-10 01:37:06.739989760 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/sk_mca.c	2004-04-10 01:38:33.684772144 -0700
@@ -996,14 +996,12 @@ static void skmca_set_multicast_list(str
 	else
 		block.Mode &= ~LANCE_INIT_PROM;
 
-	if (dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) {	/* get all multicasts */
-		memset(block.LAdrF, 8, 0xff);
-	} else {		/* get selected/no multicasts */
-
+	memset(block.LAdrF, 0xff, sizeof(block.LAdrF));
+	if (!(dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI)) {
+		/* get selected/no multicasts */
 		struct dev_mc_list *mptr;
 		int code;
 
-		memset(block.LAdrF, 8, 0x00);
 		for (mptr = dev->mc_list; mptr != NULL; mptr = mptr->next) {
 			code = GetHash(mptr->dmi_addr);
 			block.LAdrF[(code >> 3) & 7] |= 1 << (code & 7);

_


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-10  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-10  8:20 [BUG 2.2/2.4/2.6] broken memsets in net/sk_mca.c (multicast) Jean Delvare
2004-04-10  8:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-10  8:49   ` Russell King
2004-04-10  8:59     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-10 14:49       ` Jean Delvare
2004-04-10 11:52 ` Denis Vlasenko

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