netdev - Re: [patch] rtl8102e: commit 7bf6bf480 zeroized MAC address

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:15:38 +0200
From:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
CC:	c4p7n@...itanio.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] rtl8102e: commit 7bf6bf480 zeroized MAC address

Francois Romieu wrote:
> c4p7n@...itanio.org <c4p7n@...itanio.org> :
>> May be we are reading just by luck zeros and not a random perfectly
>> sane address.
> 
> I would use the attached patches. The former one is mostly Ivan's one
> with some rework of the debug messages. The later checks the eeprom
> for its signature.
> 
> With these patches the driver notices that it can not get an address
> for my 8168b but it works ok with my 8169 after both an hot and a
> cold boot. Interestingly enough, the VPD is not enabled on the 8169
> during the first boot.
> 
> Ivan, can you test them (and fix them afterwards :o) ) ?
No problem found. Both 8168c (GIGA_MAC_VER_20) and 8102el (GIGA_MAC_VER_09)
successfully loads MAC address from EEPROM (from power-off state and also
after reboot).

Ivan
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html