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authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>2021-11-22 22:35:33 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-11-23 13:12:37 +0100
commitc75a9ad43691de040bead75f1924928111571f9c (patch)
treeb4e8142ddeee16769170103cda3d71964145267f /drivers/net/ethernet/realtek
parentMerge branch '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/... (diff)
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r8169: fix incorrect mac address assignment
The original changes brakes MAC address assignment on older chip versions (see bug report [0]), and it brakes random MAC assignment. is_valid_ether_addr() requires that its argument is word-aligned. Add the missing alignment to array mac_addr. [0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215087 Fixes: 1c5d09d58748 ("ethernet: r8169: use eth_hw_addr_set()") Reported-by: Richard Herbert <rherbert@sympatico.ca> Tested-by: Richard Herbert <rherbert@sympatico.ca> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/realtek')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index bbe21db20417..86c44bc5f73f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -5217,8 +5217,8 @@ static int rtl_get_ether_clk(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
static void rtl_init_mac_address(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
{
+ u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2) = {};
struct net_device *dev = tp->dev;
- u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN];
int rc;
rc = eth_platform_get_mac_address(tp_to_dev(tp), mac_addr);
@@ -5233,7 +5233,8 @@ static void rtl_init_mac_address(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
if (is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr))
goto done;
- eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
+ eth_random_addr(mac_addr);
+ dev->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_RANDOM;
dev_warn(tp_to_dev(tp), "can't read MAC address, setting random one\n");
done:
eth_hw_addr_set(dev, mac_addr);