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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2025-05-27 09:25:45 +0300
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2025-05-27 09:25:46 +0300
commit358bea91ce6b4f02e5df0143382c96d7083504bc (patch)
tree1b125a39db68d7241d227de66db8b3bef305fc35 /net/core/dev.c
parent5bccdc51f90c3194fda4bab92c521c2e2eb4e887 (diff)
parentae9fcd5a0f8ab7e12619e1c66312a03b842935c3 (diff)
downloadlinux-358bea91ce6b4f02e5df0143382c96d7083504bc.tar.xz
Merge branch 'net-convert-dev_set_mac_address-to-struct-sockaddr_storage'
Kees Cook says: ==================== net: Convert dev_set_mac_address() to struct sockaddr_storage As part of the effort to allow the compiler to reason about object sizes, we need to deal with the problematic variably sized struct sockaddr, which has no internal runtime size tracking. In much of the network stack the use of struct sockaddr_storage has been adopted. Continue the transition toward this for more of the internal APIs. Specifically: - inet_addr_is_any() - netif_set_mac_address() - dev_set_mac_address() - dev_set_mac_address_user() Only a few callers of dev_set_mac_address() needed adjustment; all others were already using struct sockaddr_storage internally. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250520222452.work.063-kees@kernel.org/ ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250521204310.it.500-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 3eb4e945f312..2b514d95c528 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -9669,7 +9669,7 @@ int dev_pre_changeaddr_notify(struct net_device *dev, const char *addr,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_pre_changeaddr_notify);
-int netif_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa,
+int netif_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr_storage *ss,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
@@ -9677,15 +9677,15 @@ int netif_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa,
if (!ops->ndo_set_mac_address)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- if (sa->sa_family != dev->type)
+ if (ss->ss_family != dev->type)
return -EINVAL;
if (!netif_device_present(dev))
return -ENODEV;
- err = dev_pre_changeaddr_notify(dev, sa->sa_data, extack);
+ err = dev_pre_changeaddr_notify(dev, ss->__data, extack);
if (err)
return err;
- if (memcmp(dev->dev_addr, sa->sa_data, dev->addr_len)) {
- err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa);
+ if (memcmp(dev->dev_addr, ss->__data, dev->addr_len)) {
+ err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, ss);
if (err)
return err;
}
@@ -9697,6 +9697,7 @@ int netif_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa,
DECLARE_RWSEM(dev_addr_sem);
+/* "sa" is a true struct sockaddr with limited "sa_data" member. */
int dev_get_mac_address(struct sockaddr *sa, struct net *net, char *dev_name)
{
size_t size = sizeof(sa->sa_data_min);