[PATCH RESEND] wifi: ath12k: fix MAC address copy on big endian

Alexander Wilhelm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.ath12k,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
Message-ID <20260629-fix-mac-addr-copy-on-big-endian-v1-1-3de40f74c13e@westermo.com>
The ath12k_dp_get_mac_addr function performs a simple memcpy from a
CPU-native data types into an u8 array. On a big-endian architecture, this
later results in a null‑pointer dereference. Convert the data to
little‑endian first, then copy it into the target array.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wilhelm <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h
index f8cfc7bb29dd..50957915dbf4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h
@@ -647,8 +647,11 @@ int ath12k_dp_arch_rx_tid_delete_handler(struct ath12k_dp *dp,
 
 static inline void ath12k_dp_get_mac_addr(u32 addr_l32, u16 addr_h16, u8 *addr)
 {
-	memcpy(addr, &addr_l32, 4);
-	memcpy(addr + 4, &addr_h16, ETH_ALEN - 4);
+	__le32 le_addr_l32 = cpu_to_le32(addr_l32);
+	__le16 le_addr_h16 = cpu_to_le16(addr_h16);
+
+	memcpy(addr, &le_addr_l32, 4);
+	memcpy(addr + 4, &le_addr_h16, ETH_ALEN - 4);
 }
 
 static inline struct ath12k_dp *

---
base-commit: 702847e8cfd51856836a282db2073defd7cfd80c
change-id: 20260317-fix-mac-addr-copy-on-big-endian-f1a4fea40184

Best regards,
-- 
Alexander Wilhelm <[email protected]>
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