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From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, steve.glendinning@shawell.net,
	linux@roeck-us.net, jeremy.linton@arm.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] device property: Add ETH_ALEN check, update comments.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:46:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440002803-5113-2-git-send-email-jeremy.linton@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440002803-5113-1-git-send-email-jeremy.linton@arm.com>

This patch adds MAC address length check back into
the device_get_mac_addr() function before calling
is_valid_ether_addr() similar to the way the OF
routine does it.

Update the comments for the two new functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
---
 drivers/base/property.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/property.c b/drivers/base/property.c
index 2e8cd14..4c20828 100644
--- a/drivers/base/property.c
+++ b/drivers/base/property.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ bool device_dma_is_coherent(struct device *dev)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_dma_is_coherent);
 
 /**
- * device_get_phy_mode - Get phy mode for given device_node
+ * device_get_phy_mode - Get phy mode for given device
  * @dev:	Pointer to the given device
  *
  * The function gets phy interface string from property 'phy-mode' or
@@ -570,13 +570,18 @@ static void *device_get_mac_addr(struct device *dev,
 {
 	int ret = device_property_read_u8_array(dev, name, addr, alen);
 
-	if (ret == 0 && is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
+	if (ret == 0 && alen == ETH_ALEN && is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
 		return addr;
 	return NULL;
 }
 
 /**
- * Search the device tree for the best MAC address to use.  'mac-address' is
+ * device_get_mac_address - Get the MAC for a given device
+ * @dev:	Pointer to the device
+ * @addr:	Address of buffer to store the MAC in
+ * @alen:	Length of the buffer pointed to by addr, should be ETH_ALEN
+ *
+ * Search the firmware node for the best MAC address to use.  'mac-address' is
  * checked first, because that is supposed to contain to "most recent" MAC
  * address. If that isn't set, then 'local-mac-address' is checked next,
  * because that is the default address.  If that isn't set, then the obsolete
@@ -587,11 +592,11 @@ static void *device_get_mac_addr(struct device *dev,
  * MAC address.
  *
  * All-zero MAC addresses are rejected, because those could be properties that
- * exist in the device tree, but were not set by U-Boot.  For example, the
- * DTS could define 'mac-address' and 'local-mac-address', with zero MAC
- * addresses.  Some older U-Boots only initialized 'local-mac-address'.  In
- * this case, the real MAC is in 'local-mac-address', and 'mac-address' exists
- * but is all zeros.
+ * exist in the firmware tables, but were not updated by the firmware.  For
+ * example, the DTS could define 'mac-address' and 'local-mac-address', with
+ * zero MAC addresses.  Some older U-Boots only initialized 'local-mac-address'.
+ * In this case, the real MAC is in 'local-mac-address', and 'mac-address'
+ * exists but is all zeros.
 */
 void *device_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, char *addr, int alen)
 {
-- 
2.4.3

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-19 16:46 [PATCH 0/2] Small cleanups for smsc and device property Jeremy Linton
2015-08-19 16:46 ` Jeremy Linton [this message]
2015-08-20 21:37   ` [PATCH 1/2] device property: Add ETH_ALEN check, update comments David Miller
2015-08-19 16:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] smsc911x: Remove dev==NULL check Jeremy Linton
2015-08-20 21:38   ` David Miller

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