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authorRafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>2013-02-06 19:27:17 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-02-08 17:42:19 -0500
commitd166f218ff2bae0f6adae9ce5444a889a1d749e2 (patch)
tree08a91bb67333aaaab2760d531b9d525f0ef243ec /drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
parente5e67305885eb12849b5475764b0542f03dc2b59 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c6
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)
1318 return -ENOTSUPP; 1318 return -ENOTSUPP;
1319 } 1319 }
1320 1320
1321 if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac)) {
1322 dev_err(&core->dev, "Invalid MAC addr: %pM\n", mac);
1323 eth_random_addr(mac);
1324 dev_warn(&core->dev, "Using random MAC: %pM\n", mac);
1325 }
1326
1321 /* Allocation and references */ 1327 /* Allocation and references */
1322 net_dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*bgmac)); 1328 net_dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*bgmac));
1323 if (!net_dev) 1329 if (!net_dev)