netdev - Re: [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus 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: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

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

Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:04:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	venza@...wnhat.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address

From: Daniele Venzano <venza@...wnhat.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:45:04 +0100

> The attached patch modifies the sis900 driver to show a warning at boot
> or module load time to show a message when a null MAC address
> (00:00:00:00:00:00) is read from the the hardware.
> This seems to happen with newer usage of the sis900 chipset, since this
> never came up before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniele Venzano <venza@...wnhat.org>

Choose a random mac address, as other drivers do in this
situation, so that the user ends up with a usable interface.
--
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