The warning info: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘memcpy’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type
Variable is done const intentionally to prevent using it directly, using the new helper functions : 'eth_hw_addr_set()' and 'eth_hw_addr_random()' Fixes: ea6b39b5b847 ("kni: remove ethtool support") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Ke Zhang <ke1x.zh...@intel.com> --- kernel/linux/kni/kni_misc.c | 4 ++-- kernel/linux/kni/kni_net.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/linux/kni/kni_misc.c b/kernel/linux/kni/kni_misc.c index 780187d8bf..1da8e812b7 100644 --- a/kernel/linux/kni/kni_misc.c +++ b/kernel/linux/kni/kni_misc.c @@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ kni_ioctl_create(struct net *net, uint32_t ioctl_num, /* if user has provided a valid mac address */ if (is_valid_ether_addr(dev_info.mac_addr)) - memcpy(net_dev->dev_addr, dev_info.mac_addr, ETH_ALEN); + eth_hw_addr_set(net_dev, dev_info.mac_addr); else /* Generate random MAC address. */ - eth_random_addr(net_dev->dev_addr); + eth_hw_addr_random(net_dev); if (dev_info.mtu) net_dev->mtu = dev_info.mtu; diff --git a/kernel/linux/kni/kni_net.c b/kernel/linux/kni/kni_net.c index 29e5b9e21f..1da4f836aa 100644 --- a/kernel/linux/kni/kni_net.c +++ b/kernel/linux/kni/kni_net.c @@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ kni_net_set_mac(struct net_device *netdev, void *p) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; memcpy(req.mac_addr, addr->sa_data, netdev->addr_len); - memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, netdev->addr_len); + eth_hw_addr_set(netdev, addr->sa_data); ret = kni_net_process_request(netdev, &req); -- 2.25.1