Sparse builds have been warning for a really long time now
that etherdevice.h has a conversion that is unsafe.
include/linux/etherdevice.h:79:32: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
This code change fixes the issue and generates the exact
same assembly before/after (checked on x86_64)
Fixes:
2c722fe1c821 (etherdevice: Optimize a few is_<foo>_ether_addr functions)
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
return (((*(const u32 *)addr) ^ (*(const u32 *)b)) |
- ((a[2] ^ b[2]) & m)) == 0;
+ (__force int)((a[2] ^ b[2]) & m)) == 0;
#else
return ((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | ((a[2] ^ b[2]) & m)) == 0;
#endif