Re: [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 <akYkNQTB5DPwzYXZ@FUE-ALEWI-WINX>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 04:12:00PM +0800, Baochen Qiang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/29/2026 3:55 PM, Alexander Wilhelm wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Alex, did you find a time to investigate the root cause of the null pointer?

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to look into it yet. However, it's on my to-do
list. I will try to reproduce the issue again as soon as possible.


Best regards
Alexander Wilhelm
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