From: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@redhat.com>
To: horms@kernel.org
Cc: dave.stevenson@raspberrypi.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, jtornosm@redhat.com, kuba@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] net: usb: ax88179_178a: non necessary second random mac address
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:31:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240326163107.306612-1-jtornosm@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240326092459.GG403975@kernel.org>
If the mac address can not be read from the device registers or the
devicetree, a random address is generated, but this was already done from
usbnet_probe, so it is not necessary to call eth_hw_addr_random from here
again to generate another random address.
Indeed, when reset was also executed from bind, generate another random mac
address invalidated the check from usbnet_probe to configure if the assigned
mac address for the interface was random or not, because it is comparing
with the initial generated random address. Now, with only a reset from open
operation, it is just a harmless simplification.
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6+
Fixes: 9fb137aef34e ("net: usb: ax88179_178a: allow optionally getting mac address from device tree")
Signed-off-by: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@redhat.com>
---
V1 -> V2:
- Split the fix and the improvement in two patches and keep curly-brackets
as Simon Horman suggests.
drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
index 8ca8ace93d9c..08c9b2ab9711 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
@@ -1276,7 +1276,6 @@ static void ax88179_get_mac_addr(struct usbnet *dev)
dev->net->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_PERM;
} else {
netdev_info(dev->net, "invalid MAC address, using random\n");
- eth_hw_addr_random(dev->net);
}
ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, ETH_ALEN,
--
2.44.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-26 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-25 17:31 [PATCH] net: usb: ax88179_178a: avoid the interface always configured as random address Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez
2024-03-26 9:24 ` Simon Horman
2024-03-26 16:05 ` Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez
2024-03-26 16:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez
2024-03-26 16:31 ` Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez [this message]
2024-03-27 16:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] net: usb: ax88179_178a: non necessary second random mac address Simon Horman
2024-04-01 8:06 ` Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez
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