@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ struct qmi_wwan_state {
struct usb_interface *data;
};
+/* default ethernet address used by the modem */
+static const u8 default_modem_addr[ETH_ALEN] = {0x02, 0x50, 0xf3};
+
/* Make up an ethernet header if the packet doesn't have one.
*
* A firmware bug common among several devices cause them to send raw
@@ -314,6 +317,12 @@ next_desc:
usb_driver_release_interface(driver, info->data);
}
+ /* Never use the same address on both ends of the link, even
+ * if the buggy firmware told us to.
+ */
+ if (!compare_ether_addr(dev->net->dev_addr, default_modem_addr))
+ eth_hw_addr_random(dev->net);
+
/* make MAC addr easily distinguishable from an IP header */
if (possibly_iphdr(dev->net->dev_addr)) {
dev->net->dev_addr[0] |= 0x02; /* set local assignment bit */
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled net: qmi_wwan: prevent duplicate mac address on link (firmware bug to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.4. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 71d870fd97d4870bc860bad72621663cacb1e7c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:57:11 +0000 Subject: net: qmi_wwan: prevent duplicate mac address on link (firmware bug workaround) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit commit cc6ba5fdaabea7a7b28de3ba1e0fe54d92232fe5 upstream. We normally trust and use the CDC functional descriptors provided by a number of devices. But some of these will erroneously list the address reserved for the device end of the link. Attempting to use this on both the device and host side will naturally not work. Work around this bug by ignoring the functional descriptor and assign a random address instead in this case. Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) -- 1.8.1.2