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[net-next,19/20] net: plip: slight optimization of addr compare

Message ID 52BD22ED.4030302@huawei.com
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Ding Tianhong Dec. 27, 2013, 6:49 a.m. UTC
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/net/plip/plip.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Eric Dumazet Dec. 27, 2013, 3:48 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
> to instead of memcmp.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/plip/plip.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
> index 7b4ff35..26614df 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
>  	{
> -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
> +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
>  		else
>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;

What about :

        if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
                if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
                        skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
                else
                        skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
        }



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Joe Perches Dec. 27, 2013, 5:06 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 07:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> > Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
> > to instead of memcmp.
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
[]
> > @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> >  
> >  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
> >  	{
> > -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
> > +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
> >  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
> >  		else
> >  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;
> 
> What about :
> 
>         if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
>                 if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
>                 else
>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
>         }

That is better though I wonder how many systems are
still using laplink via parallel null-printer cables.

No matter, better is better.

The same optimization using ether_addr_equal_64bits
may be possible to do in other places given other
structs too.

Perhaps it's a possible spatch/coccinelle conversion,

I don't know spatch well enough to know if a
mechanism to check if structure members have other
fields that follow them in the structure or if the
structure member is an array of a minimum size.

Maybe Julia does.  (cc'd)

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Julia Lawall Dec. 27, 2013, 8:12 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 07:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> > > Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
> > > to instead of memcmp.
> []
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
> []
> > > @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> > >  
> > >  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
> > >  	{
> > > -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
> > > +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
> > >  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
> > >  		else
> > >  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;
> > 
> > What about :
> > 
> >         if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
> >                 if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
> >                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
> >                 else
> >                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
> >         }
> 
> That is better though I wonder how many systems are
> still using laplink via parallel null-printer cables.
> 
> No matter, better is better.
> 
> The same optimization using ether_addr_equal_64bits
> may be possible to do in other places given other
> structs too.
> 
> Perhaps it's a possible spatch/coccinelle conversion,
> 
> I don't know spatch well enough to know if a
> mechanism to check if structure members have other
> fields that follow them in the structure or if the
> structure member is an array of a minimum size.
> 
> Maybe Julia does.  (cc'd)

I'm not sure to competely understand the issues.  Could you explain more?

thanks,
julia
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Joe Perches Dec. 27, 2013, 8:46 p.m. UTC | #4
On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 21:12 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 07:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> > > > Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
> > > > to instead of memcmp.
> > []
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
> > []
> > > > @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> > > >  
> > > >  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
> > > >  	{
> > > > -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
> > > > +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
> > > >  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
> > > >  		else
> > > >  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;
> > > 
> > > What about :
> > > 
> > >         if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
> > >                 if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
> > >                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
> > >                 else
> > >                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
> > >         }
> > 
> > That is better though I wonder how many systems are
> > still using laplink via parallel null-printer cables.
> > 
> > No matter, better is better.
> > 
> > The same optimization using ether_addr_equal_64bits
> > may be possible to do in other places given other
> > structs too.
> > 
> > Perhaps it's a possible spatch/coccinelle conversion,
> > 
> > I don't know spatch well enough to know if a
> > mechanism to check if structure members have other
> > fields that follow them in the structure or if the
> > structure member is an array of a minimum size.
> > 
> > Maybe Julia does.  (cc'd)
> 
> I'm not sure to competely understand the issues.  Could you explain more?

Hi Julia.

Maybe this explanation is helpful?

ethernet addresses are u8[6] (48 bits)

ether_addr_equal_64bits gets passed a pointer to u8[8]
and is more efficient on 64 bit architectures than
ether_addr_equal because the test can be done with a
single compare and shift.

The idea is not to access past the end of the ethernet
address as appropriate (think pointer to eeprom or other
such end-of-addressable memory conditions)

If a struct containing an ethernet address has additional
members after the ethernet address, or the u8[6] address
passed to ether_addr_equal is not going to access past
the end of memory or the structure, then
ether_addr_equal_64bits should be used in lieu of
ether_addr_equal.

Joe


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Ding Tianhong Dec. 28, 2013, 5:05 a.m. UTC | #5
On 2013/12/27 23:48, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
>> to instead of memcmp.
>>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/plip/plip.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
>> index 7b4ff35..26614df 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
>> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>  
>>  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
>>  	{
>> -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
>> +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
>>  		else
>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;
> 
> What about :
> 
>         if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
>                 if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
>                 else
>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
>         }
> 
> 
> 
more better, thanks.

Regards
Ding

> 
> 


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Ding Tianhong Dec. 28, 2013, 5:07 a.m. UTC | #6
On 2013/12/28 1:06, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 07:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>>> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
>>> to instead of memcmp.
> []
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
> []
>>> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>>  
>>>  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
>>>  	{
>>> -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
>>> +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
>>>  		else
>>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;
>>
>> What about :
>>
>>         if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
>>                 if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
>>                 else
>>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
>>         }
> 
> That is better though I wonder how many systems are
> still using laplink via parallel null-printer cables.
> 
> No matter, better is better.
> 
> The same optimization using ether_addr_equal_64bits
> may be possible to do in other places given other
> structs too.
> 
> Perhaps it's a possible spatch/coccinelle conversion,
> 
> I don't know spatch well enough to know if a
> mechanism to check if structure members have other
> fields that follow them in the structure or if the
> structure member is an array of a minimum size.
> 
> Maybe Julia does.  (cc'd)
> 
> 
As the below patch said, that a lot of ether_addr_equal
could be instead of ether_addr_equal_64bits, and I need to
review them and resend.

Regards
Ding 

> 


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Joe Perches Dec. 28, 2013, 5:11 a.m. UTC | #7
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 13:07 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> On 2013/12/28 1:06, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 07:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> >>> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
> >>> to instead of memcmp.
> > []
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
> > []
> >>> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> >>>  
> >>>  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
> >>>  	{
> >>> -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
> >>> +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
> >>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
> >>>  		else
> >>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;
> >>
> >> What about :
> >>
> >>         if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
> >>                 if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
> >>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
> >>                 else
> >>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
> >>         }
> > 
> > That is better though I wonder how many systems are
> > still using laplink via parallel null-printer cables.
> > 
> > No matter, better is better.
> > 
> > The same optimization using ether_addr_equal_64bits
> > may be possible to do in other places given other
> > structs too.
> > 
> > Perhaps it's a possible spatch/coccinelle conversion,
> > 
> > I don't know spatch well enough to know if a
> > mechanism to check if structure members have other
> > fields that follow them in the structure or if the
> > structure member is an array of a minimum size.
> > 
> > Maybe Julia does.  (cc'd)
> > 
> > 
> As the below patch said, that a lot of ether_addr_equal
> could be instead of ether_addr_equal_64bits, and I need to
> review them and resend.

I don't think so.

I think what you've done so far is fine.

Any conversions to ether_addr_equal_64bit
can be done later.


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Ding Tianhong Dec. 28, 2013, 5:35 a.m. UTC | #8
On 2013/12/28 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 13:07 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> On 2013/12/28 1:06, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 07:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 14:49 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>>>>> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
>>>>> to instead of memcmp.
>>> []
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
>>> []
>>>>> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>>>>  
>>>>>  	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
>>>>>  	{
>>>>> -		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
>>>>> +		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>>>>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
>>>>>  		else
>>>>>  			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;
>>>>
>>>> What about :
>>>>
>>>>         if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
>>>>                 if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
>>>>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
>>>>                 else
>>>>                         skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
>>>>         }
>>>
>>> That is better though I wonder how many systems are
>>> still using laplink via parallel null-printer cables.
>>>
>>> No matter, better is better.
>>>
>>> The same optimization using ether_addr_equal_64bits
>>> may be possible to do in other places given other
>>> structs too.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it's a possible spatch/coccinelle conversion,
>>>
>>> I don't know spatch well enough to know if a
>>> mechanism to check if structure members have other
>>> fields that follow them in the structure or if the
>>> structure member is an array of a minimum size.
>>>
>>> Maybe Julia does.  (cc'd)
>>>
>>>
>> As the below patch said, that a lot of ether_addr_equal
>> could be instead of ether_addr_equal_64bits, and I need to
>> review them and resend.
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> I think what you've done so far is fine.
> 
> Any conversions to ether_addr_equal_64bit
> can be done later.
> 

Ok, thanks.

Regards
Ding
> 
> 
> 


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Julia Lawall Dec. 29, 2013, 10:05 p.m. UTC | #9
> Hi Julia.
> 
> Maybe this explanation is helpful?
> 
> ethernet addresses are u8[6] (48 bits)
> 
> ether_addr_equal_64bits gets passed a pointer to u8[8]
> and is more efficient on 64 bit architectures than
> ether_addr_equal because the test can be done with a
> single compare and shift.
> 
> The idea is not to access past the end of the ethernet
> address as appropriate (think pointer to eeprom or other
> such end-of-addressable memory conditions)
> 
> If a struct containing an ethernet address has additional
> members after the ethernet address, or the u8[6] address
> passed to ether_addr_equal is not going to access past
> the end of memory or the structure, then
> ether_addr_equal_64bits should be used in lieu of
> ether_addr_equal.

After some work on getting more include files to be taken into account, I 
get the following list of cases where both arguments have the form of a 
field reference, the field has array type, and the field is not at the end 
of the structure.  I guess these are all candidates for 
ether_addr_equal_64bits (assuming that they correctly do satisfy these 
properties)?

Most of the uses of ether_addr_equal unfortunately take at least one 
pointer as an argument.  If the pointer is a parameter one has to check 
all of the calls sites.  If the function is static, this is perhaps not 
too bad, but from looking at some examples, it seems that this is often 
not the case.

There seem to also be quite a number of comparisons that use memcmp rather 
than ether_addr_equal.  It seems that using ether_addr_equal would require 
knowing about alignment.  In some cases, the structure field declaration 
explicitly mentions alignment.  I'm not sure how to be sure that it holds 
otherwise.  In particular, many of the relevant structures are declared as 
__packed.  Perhaps that is also an issue for using 
ether_addr_equal_64bits?

julia

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file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2521
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2340
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2335
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3093
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3111
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3127
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3137
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3147
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3168
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3103
file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2146
file net/mac80211/sta_info.c on line 416
file net/mac80211/status.c on line 595
file net/mac80211/ibss.c on line 1126
file net/mac80211/ibss.c on line 1018
file net/mac80211/ibss.c on line 1437
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Joe Perches Dec. 29, 2013, 10:28 p.m. UTC | #10
On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 23:05 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> After some work on getting more include files to be taken into account, I 
> get the following list of cases where both arguments have the form of a 
> field reference, the field has array type, and the field is not at the end 
> of the structure.  I guess these are all candidates for 
> ether_addr_equal_64bits (assuming that they correctly do satisfy these 
> properties)?

I believe yes.

> There seem to also be quite a number of comparisons that use memcmp rather 
> than ether_addr_equal.

Ding's patch series converts all the memcmp(e1, e1, \(ETH_ALEN\|6\))
via spatch to either ether_addr_equal or ether_addr_equal_unaligned.

I believe he's inspecting the sites to determine if the
conversion should use the _unaligned version.

> It seems that using ether_addr_equal would require 
> knowing about alignment.  In some cases, the structure field declaration 
> explicitly mentions alignment.  I'm not sure how to be sure that it holds 
> otherwise.  In particular, many of the relevant structures are declared as 
> __packed.  Perhaps that is also an issue for using 
> ether_addr_equal_64bits?

No, not really, the packing really doesn't matter, just
whether or not there are 2 more addressable bytes after
the u8 array[6].

Thanks for the list Julia.

> From linux-next of 20131224.
> 
> file drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c on line 1524
> file drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c on line 1528
> file drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c on line 342
> file drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c on line 1042
> file drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c on line 660
> file drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c on line 1465
> file drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/ps.c on line 926
> file drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/ps.c on line 481
> file drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c on line 1296
> file drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c on line 1784
> file drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c on line 311
> file drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c on line 568
> file drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c on line 571
> file drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_rx.c on line 1471
> file drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c on line 605
> file drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c on line 606
> file drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c on line 539
> file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c on line 1080
> file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c on line 985
> file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c on line 1248
> file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c on line 1312
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/3945.c on line 472
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/3945.c on line 469
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c on line 3749
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c on line 3750
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c on line 3751
> file drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c on line 1261
> file drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c on line 1724
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c on line 878
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c on line 879
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c on line 880
> file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rx.c on line 783
> file drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c on line 334
> file drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c on line 580
> file drivers/net/vxlan.c on line 1371
> file drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c on line 790
> file drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c on line 230
> file drivers/staging/vt6656/dpc.c on line 357
> file drivers/staging/vt6656/dpc.c on line 369
> file net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c on line 407
> file net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c on line 410
> file net/wireless/scan.c on line 636
> file net/wireless/mlme.c on line 561
> file net/wireless/mlme.c on line 575
> file net/wireless/mlme.c on line 588
> file net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c on line 88
> file net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c on line 187
> file net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c on line 90
> file net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c on line 178
> file net/802/stp.c on line 49
> file net/mac80211/tx.c on line 1693
> file net/mac80211/mesh.c on line 1055
> file net/mac80211/mesh.c on line 1005
> file net/mac80211/scan.c on line 187
> file net/mac80211/scan.c on line 188
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2584
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 4036
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 3827
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2784
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2814
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2217
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2245
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2708
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2712
> file net/mac80211/mlme.c on line 2695
> file net/mac80211/iface.c on line 288
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 1910
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 1641
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 1642
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3104
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2341
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2521
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2340
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2335
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3093
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3111
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3127
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3137
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3147
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3168
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 3103
> file net/mac80211/rx.c on line 2146
> file net/mac80211/sta_info.c on line 416
> file net/mac80211/status.c on line 595
> file net/mac80211/ibss.c on line 1126
> file net/mac80211/ibss.c on line 1018
> file net/mac80211/ibss.c on line 1437




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diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
index 7b4ff35..26614df 100644
--- a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@  static __be16 plip_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 
 	if(*eth->h_dest&1)
 	{
-		if(memcmp(eth->h_dest,dev->broadcast, ETH_ALEN)==0)
+		if(ether_addr_equal(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
 			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_BROADCAST;
 		else
 			skb->pkt_type=PACKET_MULTICAST;