[U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: remove unaligned access in fdt_fixup_ethernet()

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue May 28 06:01:19 CEST 2013


Some ARM compilers may emit code that makes unaligned accesses when
faced with constructs such as:

char mac[16] = "ethaddr";

Replace this with a strcpy() call instead to avoid this. strcpy() is
used here, rather than replacing all usage of the mac variable with the
string itself, since the loop itself sprintf()s to the variable each
iteration, so strcpy() is doing basically the same thing.

Reported-by: Florian Meier
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
---
 common/fdt_support.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/fdt_support.c b/common/fdt_support.c
index 812acb4..89e7883 100644
--- a/common/fdt_support.c
+++ b/common/fdt_support.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ void fdt_fixup_ethernet(void *fdt)
 {
 	int node, i, j;
 	char enet[16], *tmp, *end;
-	char mac[16] = "ethaddr";
+	char mac[16];
 	const char *path;
 	unsigned char mac_addr[6];
 
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ void fdt_fixup_ethernet(void *fdt)
 		return;
 
 	i = 0;
+	strcpy(mac, "ethaddr");
 	while ((tmp = getenv(mac)) != NULL) {
 		sprintf(enet, "ethernet%d", i);
 		path = fdt_getprop(fdt, node, enet, NULL);
-- 
1.7.10.4



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