Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: u_ether: Fix host MAC address case

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 03:15:08PM +0200, Konrad Gräfe wrote:
> 
> As the CDC-ECM specification states the host MAC address must be sent to
> the host as an uppercase hexadecimal string:
>     The Unicode character is chosen from the set of values 30h through
>     39h and 41h through 46h (0-9 and A-F).
> 
> However, snprintf(.., "%pm", ..) generates a lowercase MAC address
> string. While most host drivers are tolerant to this, UsbNcm.sys on
> Windows 10 is not. Instead it uses a different MAC address with all
> bytes set to zero including and after the first byte containing a
> lowercase letter. On Windows 11 Microsoft fixed it, but apparently they
> did not backport the fix.
> 
> This change fixes the issue by upper-casing the MAC to comply with the
> specification.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Gräfe <k.graefe@gateware.de>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
> index 6956ad8ba8dd..250734e090fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
> @@ -958,6 +958,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gether_get_host_addr);
>  int gether_get_host_addr_cdc(struct net_device *net, char *host_addr, int len)
>  {
>  	struct eth_dev *dev;
> +	int i, slen;
>  
>  	if (len < 13)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -965,7 +966,13 @@ int gether_get_host_addr_cdc(struct net_device *net, char *host_addr, int len)
>  	dev = netdev_priv(net);
>  	snprintf(host_addr, len, "%pm", dev->host_mac);
>  
> -	return strlen(host_addr);
> +
> +	slen = strlen(host_addr);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < slen; i++)
> +		host_addr[i] = toupper(host_addr[i]);
> +
> +	return slen;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gether_get_host_addr_cdc);
>  
> 

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