netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: Inherit dev addr from master

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:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:13:33 +0800
From:   xiaofeis@...eaurora.org
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@...aro.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: Inherit dev addr from master

On 2019-02-22 22:30, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 06:26:54PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
>> From: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@...eaurora.org>
>> 
>> When we create slave netdevice, the dev addr is inherited from master
>> but the master dev addr maybe NULL at that time, so inherit it again
>> while opening the slave.
> 
> Hi Xiaofei, Vinod
> 
> Inheriting it twice seems a bit clumsy. Can the first inherit be
> removed? Can you change your MAC driver to set its MAC address in
> probe?
> 
> 	Andrew
Hi Andrew

Some mac driver set its MAC address in probe while some MAC driver do it 
in the open function in the kernel.


This patch is checking whether the address is valid firstly, if it 
already inherits a valid mac address, it will not inherit again.

I think we can remove the first inherit, but if keep it, we can see 
consistent address output by ifconfig -a before open master and slave 
interface.

Xiaofeis