brcmfmac: use memset when setting a broadcast mac address

The driver had a global constant ether_bcast, which was copied
whenever a broadcast mac address was needed. This patch does a
memset(dest, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN) instead and consequently removes
the global ether_bcast.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
index 5ce0068c097..94c619ab20f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
@@ -94,8 +94,6 @@
 #define BRCMF_ASSOC_PARAMS_FIXED_SIZE \
         (sizeof(struct brcmf_assoc_params_le) - sizeof(u16))
 
-static const u8 ether_bcast[ETH_ALEN] = {255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255};
-
 static u32 brcmf_dbg_level = WL_DBG_ERR;
 
 static bool check_vif_up(struct brcmf_cfg80211_vif *vif)
@@ -534,7 +532,7 @@ static void brcmf_set_mpc(struct net_device *ndev, int mpc)
 static void brcmf_iscan_prep(struct brcmf_scan_params_le *params_le,
                              struct brcmf_ssid *ssid)
 {
-        memcpy(params_le->bssid, ether_bcast, ETH_ALEN);
+        memset(params_le->bssid, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN);
         params_le->bss_type = DOT11_BSSTYPE_ANY;
         params_le->scan_type = 0;
         params_le->channel_num = 0;
@@ -721,7 +719,7 @@ static void brcmf_escan_prep(struct brcmf_scan_params_le *params_le,
         char *ptr;
         struct brcmf_ssid_le ssid_le;
 
-        memcpy(params_le->bssid, ether_bcast, ETH_ALEN);
+        memset(params_le->bssid, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN);
         params_le->bss_type = DOT11_BSSTYPE_ANY;
         params_le->scan_type = 0;
         params_le->channel_num = 0;
@@ -810,7 +808,7 @@ brcmf_notify_escan_complete(struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg,
                 /* Do a scan abort to stop the driver's scan engine */
                 WL_SCAN("ABORT scan in firmware\n");
                 memset(&params_le, 0, sizeof(params_le));
-                memcpy(params_le.bssid, ether_bcast, ETH_ALEN);
+                memset(params_le.bssid, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN);
                 params_le.bss_type = DOT11_BSSTYPE_ANY;
                 params_le.scan_type = 0;
                 params_le.channel_num = cpu_to_le32(1);
@@ -1283,7 +1281,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_join_ibss(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
                                    BRCMF_ASSOC_PARAMS_FIXED_SIZE;
                 memcpy(profile->bssid, params->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
         } else {
-                memcpy(join_params.params_le.bssid, ether_bcast, ETH_ALEN);
+                memset(join_params.params_le.bssid, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN);
                 memset(profile->bssid, 0, ETH_ALEN);
         }
 
@@ -1673,7 +1671,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_connect(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
         memcpy(&profile->ssid.SSID, sme->ssid, profile->ssid.SSID_len);
         join_params.ssid_le.SSID_len = cpu_to_le32(profile->ssid.SSID_len);
 
-        memcpy(join_params.params_le.bssid, ether_bcast, ETH_ALEN);
+        memset(join_params.params_le.bssid, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN);
 
         if (ssid.SSID_len < IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN)
                 WL_CONN("ssid \"%s\", len (%d)\n",