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| author | Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> | 2013-02-07 00:27:17 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-02-08 17:42:19 -0500 |
| commit | d166f218ff2bae0f6adae9ce5444a889a1d749e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 08a91bb67333aaaab2760d531b9d525f0ef243ec | |
| parent | e5e67305885eb12849b5475764b0542f03dc2b59 (diff) | |
bgmac: validate (and random if needed) MAC addr
This adds check for a valid Ethernet MAC address and in case it is not,
it will generate a valid random one, such that the adapter is still
usable.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c index 23c8d4a21ccf..380084bad129 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c @@ -1318,6 +1318,12 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct bcma_device *core) return -ENOTSUPP; } + if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac)) { + dev_err(&core->dev, "Invalid MAC addr: %pM\n", mac); + eth_random_addr(mac); + dev_warn(&core->dev, "Using random MAC: %pM\n", mac); + } + /* Allocation and references */ net_dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*bgmac)); if (!net_dev) |