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
| ||
|
Message-ID: <20231020082934.teh24h557qox5hna@skbuf> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:29:34 +0300 From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com> To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>, Arun Ramadoss <arun.ramadoss@...rochip.com>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, kernel@...gutronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 5/9] net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Add Wake on Magic Packet support On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 11:23:50AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 07:08:56AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 08:29:53PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > > > I don't get it, why do you release the reference on the MAC address as > > > soon as you successfully get it? Without a reference held, the > > > programmed address still lingers on, but the HSR offload code, on a > > > different port with a different MAC address, can change it and break WoL. > > > > It is ksz9477_get_wol() function. We do not actually need to program > > here the MAC address, we only need to test if we would be able to get > > it. To show the use more or less correct information on WoL > > capabilities. For example, instead showing the user that Wake on Magic > > is supported, where we already know that is not the case, we can already > > show correct information. May be it will be better to have > > extra option for ksz_switch_macaddr_get() to not allocate and do the > > refcounting or have a separate function. > > Ah, yes, it is from get_wol(). Maybe a ksz_switch_macaddr_tryget(ds, port) > which returns bool (true if dev->switch_macaddr is NULL, or if non-NULL > and ether_addr_equal(dev->switch_macaddr->addr, port addr))? Hmm, I've checked other uses of the "tryget" name in the kernel and their semantics all seem to imply that upon success, a reference is acquired. That would not be the case here, so the naming would be confusing. How about a bool ksz_switch_macaddr_check(ds, port)?
Powered by blists - more mailing lists