[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] net/eth.c: Fix env_enetaddr signed overflow

[Ben Warren <bwarren@qstreams.com>]

Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> My colleague founded this problem months ago. I'd like to see this bug
> fixed in 1.3.0. Please apply.
>
> ---
> net/eth.c: Fix env_enetaddr signed overflow
>
> Assigning the output of simple_strtoul(CB:A9:87:65:43:21) to `char', we are
> warned as below:
>
>   U-Boot 1.2.0 (Aug 30 2007 - 08:27:37)
>   
>   DRAM:  256 MB
>   Flash: 32 MB
>   In:    serial
>   Out:   serial
>   Err:   serial
>   Net:   NEC-Candy
>   Warning: NEC-Candy MAC addresses don't match:
>   Address in SROM is         00:00:4C:80:92:A2
>   Address in environment is  FFFFFFCB:FFFFFFA9:FFFFFF87:65:43:21
>
> This patch changes env_enetaddr type from `char' to `unsigned char'.
>
> Cc: Masaki Ishikawa <ishikawa-masaki@cnt.mxe.nes.nec.co.jp>
> Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi@necel.com>
> ---
>
>  net/eth.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/eth.c b/net/eth.c
> index 1b56a35..64ef312 100644
> --- a/net/eth.c
> +++ b/net/eth.c
> @@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ int eth_register(struct eth_device* dev)
>  
>  int eth_initialize(bd_t *bis)
>  {
> -	char enetvar[32], env_enetaddr[6];
> +	char enetvar[32];
> +	unsigned char env_enetaddr[6];
>  	int i, eth_number = 0;
>  	char *tmp, *end;
>  
>
>   
This looks harmless enough, but is in a place that is touched by every 
board on every architecture, and the bug doesn't really seem to hurt 
anything other than printing garbage. IMHO it should wait until the next 
release. I will apply it to a 'for_1.3.1' branch of the net tree.

regards,
Ben