Re: driver bugs with changed mac address

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 12:05:38 Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just looking through some bcm43xx code and noticed that when you
> set a different mac address for some interface, then it is stored to
> wl->mac_addr but this is only ever used in
> bcm43xx_write_mac_bssid_templates and not in bcm43xx_wireless_core_init.
> 
> iwlwifi on the other hand completely ignores the mac address after
> printing it out.
> 
> Also in bcm43xx, when the interface is removed again wl->mac_addr isn't
> set to NULL when the interface that the MAC belonged to is deleted, so
> that the mac address stays programmed on the card and we continue to ACK
> packets for that MAC address.
> 
> In zd1211, we start with hwaddr = dev->wiphy->perm_addr which isn't
> correct either, for a pure monitor mode we want to start with a zero mac
> addr to avoid acking packets. Also, zd1211rw will end up having a NULL
> hwaddr when a monitor interface is added, most likely segfaulting in
> zd_write_mac_addr then.
> 
> The NULL mac address will also happen to rtl818x and possibly p54 (at
> least when that gets monitor mode support)
> 
> Whew. So much for our little mac address audit.
> 
> johannes
> 

Nice catch, thanks!

This should fix it on bcm43xx:
http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=dbf39fd9f4cc4edc35ed7ab349c55137ea35aea0

-- 
Greetings Michael.