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kni: use dedicated function to set MAC address
authorKe Zhang <ke1x.zhang@intel.com>
Wed, 8 Jun 2022 12:11:17 +0000 (15:11 +0300)
committerAndrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
Wed, 8 Jun 2022 17:17:21 +0000 (19:17 +0200)
commitb99bd4a0aacab47165d045a6aeee88ee74744600
tree0dadad38d5fba2616a50a07c8809dec4c88220d2
parent2ee8c67ef9399759cb0d3f34b2c9fb6ea0ecc832
kni: use dedicated function to set MAC address

The warning info:
warning: passing argument 1 of ‘memcpy’ discards ‘const’
qualifier from pointer target type

Variable dev_addr is done const intentionally in v5.17 to prevent using
it directly.  See the following Linux kernel changeset for details:

commit adeef3e32146 ("net: constify netdev->dev_addr")

Used helper function was introduced earlier in v5.15.

Fixes: ea6b39b5b847 ("kni: remove ethtool support")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Ke Zhang <ke1x.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@xilinx.com>
kernel/linux/kni/compat.h
kernel/linux/kni/kni_misc.c
kernel/linux/kni/kni_net.c