Merge branch 'mainline' into upstream-linus

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/bmac.c b/drivers/net/bmac.c
index 6fad83f24c4f..711609665632 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bmac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bmac.c
@@ -1264,7 +1264,8 @@ static int __devinit bmac_probe(struct macio_dev *mdev, const struct of_device_i
 {
         int j, rev, ret;
         struct bmac_data *bp;
-        unsigned char *addr;
+        const unsigned char *prop_addr;
+        unsigned char addr[6];
         struct net_device *dev;
         int is_bmac_plus = ((int)match->data) != 0;
 
@@ -1272,14 +1273,16 @@ static int __devinit bmac_probe(struct macio_dev *mdev, const struct of_device_i
                 printk(KERN_ERR "BMAC: can't use, need 3 addrs and 3 intrs\n");
                 return -ENODEV;
         }
-        addr = get_property(macio_get_of_node(mdev), "mac-address", NULL);
-        if (addr == NULL) {
-                addr = get_property(macio_get_of_node(mdev), "local-mac-address", NULL);
-                if (addr == NULL) {
+        prop_addr = get_property(macio_get_of_node(mdev), "mac-address", NULL);
+        if (prop_addr == NULL) {
+                prop_addr = get_property(macio_get_of_node(mdev),
+                                "local-mac-address", NULL);
+                if (prop_addr == NULL) {
                         printk(KERN_ERR "BMAC: Can't get mac-address\n");
                         return -ENODEV;
                 }
         }
+        memcpy(addr, prop_addr, sizeof(addr));
 
         dev = alloc_etherdev(PRIV_BYTES);
         if (!dev) {