Commit d166f218 authored Feb 07, 2013 by Rafał Miłecki Committed by David S. Miller Feb 08, 2013

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>

parent e5e67305

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c

+6 −0

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		@@ -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)