From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
To: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>
Cc: syzbot+abbc768b560c84d92fd3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] net: usb: rtl8150: prevent set_ethernet_addr from setting uninit address
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:29:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201002142901.GA3901@carbon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a19aa514-14a9-8c92-d41a-0b9e17daa8e3@gmail.com>
On 20-10-02 17:35:25, Anant Thazhemadam wrote:
>
> Yes, this clears things up for me. I'll see to it that this gets done in a v3.
If set_ethernet_addr() fail, don't return error, but use eth_hw_addr_random()
instead to set random MAC address and continue with the probing.
You can take a look here:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201002075604.44335-1-petko.manolov@konsulko.com/
cheers,
Petko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-02 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 7:32 [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] net: usb: rtl8150: prevent set_ethernet_addr from setting uninit address Anant Thazhemadam
2020-10-02 2:15 ` David Miller
2020-10-02 11:34 ` Anant Thazhemadam
2020-10-02 11:54 ` Greg KH
2020-10-02 12:05 ` Anant Thazhemadam
2020-10-02 14:29 ` Petko Manolov [this message]
2020-10-03 5:51 ` Anant Thazhemadam
2020-10-02 22:38 ` David Miller
2020-10-03 5:54 ` Anant Thazhemadam
2020-10-03 19:38 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-03 20:58 ` Anant Thazhemadam
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