On Mon, 2020-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhema...@gmail.com> > > [ Upstream commit f45a4248ea4cc13ed50618ff066849f9587226b2 ] > > When get_registers() fails in set_ethernet_addr(),the uninitialized > value of node_id gets copied over as the address. > So, check the return value of get_registers(). > > If get_registers() executed successfully (i.e., it returns > sizeof(node_id)), copy over the MAC address using ether_addr_copy() > (instead of using memcpy()). > > Else, if get_registers() failed instead, a randomly generated MAC > address is set as the MAC address instead.
This autosel is premature. This patch always sets a random MAC. See the follow on patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/11/131 To my knowledge, this follow-ob has yet to be applied: > diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c [] > @@ -274,12 +274,20 @@ static int write_mii_word(rtl8150_t * dev, u8 phy, __u8 > indx, u16 reg) > return 1; > } > > -static inline void set_ethernet_addr(rtl8150_t * dev) > +static void set_ethernet_addr(rtl8150_t *dev) > { > - u8 node_id[6]; > + u8 node_id[ETH_ALEN]; > + int ret; > + > + ret = get_registers(dev, IDR, sizeof(node_id), node_id); > > - get_registers(dev, IDR, sizeof(node_id), node_id); > - memcpy(dev->netdev->dev_addr, node_id, sizeof(node_id)); > + if (ret == sizeof(node_id)) { So this needs to use if (!ret) { or if (ret < 0) and reversed code blocks > + ether_addr_copy(dev->netdev->dev_addr, node_id); > + } else { > + eth_hw_addr_random(dev->netdev); > + netdev_notice(dev->netdev, "Assigned a random MAC address: > %pM\n", > + dev->netdev->dev_addr); > + } > } > > static int rtl8150_set_mac_address(struct net_device *netdev, void *p)
