From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartosz Golaszewski Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: fortify eth_platform_get_mac_address() Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:20:26 +0200 Message-ID: <20180719082028.26116-2-brgl@bgdev.pl> References: <20180719082028.26116-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski To: Sekhar Nori , Kevin Hilman , Russell King , Grygorii Strashko , "David S . Miller" , Srinivas Kandagatla , Lukas Wunner , Rob Herring , Florian Fainelli , Dan Carpenter , Ivan Khoronzhuk , David Lechner , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Lunn Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180719082028.26116-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Bartosz Golaszewski We'll soon have more sources from which to read the MAC address in this routine. Make sure the address is correct before returning it. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn --- net/ethernet/eth.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c index ee28440f57c5..39af03894598 100644 --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ int eth_platform_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, u8 *mac_addr) if (!addr) addr = arch_get_platform_mac_address(); - if (!addr) + if (!addr || !is_valid_ether_addr(addr)) return -ENODEV; ether_addr_copy(mac_addr, addr); -- 2.17.1