Re: [PATCH] etherdevice: Adjust ether_addr* prototypes to silence -Wstringop-overead

Hello:

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

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:14:49 -0800 you wrote:

With GCC 12, -Wstringop-overread was warning about an implicit cast from
char[6] to char[8]. However, the extra 2 bytes are always thrown away,
alignment doesn't matter, and the risk of hitting the edge of unallocated
memory has been accepted, so this prototype can just be converted to a
regular char *. Silences:

net/core/dev.c: In function ‘bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp’: net/core/dev.c:4618:21: warning: ‘ether_addr_equal_64bits’ reading 8 bytes from a region of size 6 [-Wstringop-overread]
 4618 |         orig_host = ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, > skb->dev->dev_addr);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/core/dev.c:4618:21: note: referencing argument 1 of type ‘const u8[8]’ {aka ‘const unsigned char[8]’}
net/core/dev.c:4618:21: note: referencing argument 2 of type ‘const u8[8]’ {aka ‘const unsigned char[8]’}
In file included from net/core/dev.c:91: include/linux/etherdevice.h:375:20: note: in a call to function ‘ether_addr_equal_64bits’
  375 | static inline bool ether_addr_equal_64bits(const u8 addr1[6+2],
      |                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Here is the summary with links:
  - etherdevice: Adjust ether_addr* prototypes to silence -Wstringop-overead
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/2618a0dae09e

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