Move netpoll_parse_ip_addr() earlier in the file to be reused in
other functions, such as local_ip_store(). This avoids duplicate
address parsing logic and centralizes validation for both IPv4
and IPv6 string input.

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/netconsole.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index e3722de08ea9f..8d1b93264e0fd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -300,6 +300,26 @@ static void netconsole_print_banner(struct netpoll *np)
 	np_info(np, "remote ethernet address %pM\n", np->remote_mac);
 }
 
+static int netpoll_parse_ip_addr(const char *str, union inet_addr *addr)
+{
+	const char *end;
+
+	if (!strchr(str, ':') &&
+	    in4_pton(str, -1, (void *)addr, -1, &end) > 0) {
+		if (!*end)
+			return 0;
+	}
+	if (in6_pton(str, -1, addr->in6.s6_addr, -1, &end) > 0) {
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
+		if (!*end)
+			return 1;
+#else
+		return -1;
+#endif
+	}
+	return -1;
+}
+
 #ifdef	CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
 
 /*
@@ -1742,26 +1762,6 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *con, const char *msg, unsigned int len)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
 }
 
-static int netpoll_parse_ip_addr(const char *str, union inet_addr *addr)
-{
-	const char *end;
-
-	if (!strchr(str, ':') &&
-	    in4_pton(str, -1, (void *)addr, -1, &end) > 0) {
-		if (!*end)
-			return 0;
-	}
-	if (in6_pton(str, -1, addr->in6.s6_addr, -1, &end) > 0) {
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
-		if (!*end)
-			return 1;
-#else
-		return -1;
-#endif
-	}
-	return -1;
-}
-
 static int netconsole_parser_cmdline(struct netpoll *np, char *opt)
 {
 	bool ipversion_set = false;

-- 
2.47.1