alx: fix MAC address alignment problem

In two places, parts of MAC addresses are used as u32/u16 values. This can cause alignment problems, use put_unaligned and get_unaligned to fix this. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
kishon · Jul 1, 2013 · 46ab9b3 · 46ab9b3
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commit 46ab9b3
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/hw.c
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ static bool alx_read_macaddr(struct alx_hw *hw, u8 *addr)
 	mac1 = alx_read_mem32(hw, ALX_STAD1);
 
 	/* addr should be big-endian */
-	*(__be32 *)(addr + 2) = cpu_to_be32(mac0);
-	*(__be16 *)addr = cpu_to_be16(mac1);
+	put_unaligned(cpu_to_be32(mac0), (__be32 *)(addr + 2));
+	put_unaligned(cpu_to_be16(mac1), (__be16 *)addr);
 
 	return is_valid_ether_addr(addr);
 }
@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ void alx_set_macaddr(struct alx_hw *hw, const u8 *addr)
 	u32 val;
 
 	/* for example: 00-0B-6A-F6-00-DC * STAD0=6AF600DC, STAD1=000B */
-	val = be32_to_cpu(*(__be32 *)(addr + 2));
+	val = be32_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__be32 *)(addr + 2)));
 	alx_write_mem32(hw, ALX_STAD0, val);
-	val = be16_to_cpu(*(__be16 *)addr);
+	val = be16_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__be16 *)addr));
 	alx_write_mem32(hw, ALX_STAD1, val);
 }