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Re: [PATCH] nixge: fix mac address error handling again

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2021-11-22 15:10:15
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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by David S. Miller [off-list ref]:

On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:02:49 +0100 you wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

The change to eth_hw_addr_set() caused gcc to correctly spot a
bug that was introduced in an earlier incorrect fix:

In file included from include/linux/etherdevice.h:21,
                 from drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c:7:
In function '__dev_addr_set',
    inlined from 'eth_hw_addr_set' at include/linux/etherdevice.h:319:2,
    inlined from 'nixge_probe' at drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c:1286:3:
include/linux/netdevice.h:4648:9: error: 'memcpy' reading 6 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
 4648 |         memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr, len);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - nixge: fix mac address error handling again
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/a68229ca6340

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