r8169: fix incorrect mac address assignment
authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:35:33 +0000 (22:35 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:12:37 +0000 (12:12 +0000)
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>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c

index bbe21db..86c44bc 100644 (file)
@@ -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);