diff mbox

[net-next-2.6,3/6] be2net: check for valid ether address

Message ID 20091130035616.GA15493@serverengines.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
Headers show

Commit Message

Ajit Khaparde Nov. 30, 2009, 3:56 a.m. UTC
Allow only valid ether addresses to be assigned and used for the interface.

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
---
 drivers/net/benet/be_main.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Dec. 2, 2009, 9:11 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:26:26 +0530

> Allow only valid ether addresses to be assigned and used for the interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>

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

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
index e24f498..10262fa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@  static int be_mac_addr_set(struct net_device *netdev, void *p)
 	struct sockaddr *addr = p;
 	int status = 0;
 
+	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
+		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+
 	status = be_cmd_pmac_del(adapter, adapter->if_handle, adapter->pmac_id);
 	if (status)
 		return status;
@@ -2146,6 +2149,10 @@  static int be_get_config(struct be_adapter *adapter)
 			MAC_ADDRESS_TYPE_NETWORK, true /*permanent */, 0);
 	if (status)
 		return status;
+
+	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac))
+		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+
 	memcpy(adapter->netdev->dev_addr, mac, ETH_ALEN);
 	memcpy(adapter->netdev->perm_addr, mac, ETH_ALEN);