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| author | Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> | 2021-11-22 22:35:33 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-11-23 12:12:37 +0000 |
| commit | c75a9ad43691de040bead75f1924928111571f9c (patch) | |
| tree | b4e8142ddeee16769170103cda3d71964145267f /drivers/net/ethernet/realtek | |
| parent | 52911bb62ed82f0ba4dfddcd1540494d78b1a717 (diff) | |
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.c | 5 |
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); |