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Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.104] ([49.207.217.69]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j19sm4245113pfi.51.2020.10.02.22.54.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:54:38 -0700 (PDT) To: David Miller References: <20201001073221.239618-1-anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com> <20201001.191522.1749084221364678705.davem@davemloft.net> <83804e93-8f59-4d35-ec61-e9b5e6f00323@gmail.com> <20201002.153849.1212074263659708172.davem@davemloft.net> From: Anant Thazhemadam Message-ID: <2e4f7bdb-76c0-9ee4-88bf-5d31ded17116@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 11:24:34 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201002.153849.1212074263659708172.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Language: en-US Cc: petkan@nucleusys.com, syzbot+abbc768b560c84d92fd3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] net: usb: rtl8150: prevent set_ethernet_addr from setting uninit address X-BeenThere: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: linux-kernel-mentees-bounces@lists.linuxfoundation.org Sender: "Linux-kernel-mentees" On 03-10-2020 04:08, David Miller wrote: > From: Anant Thazhemadam > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:04:13 +0530 > >> But this patch is about ensuring that an uninitialized variable's >> value (whatever that may be) is not set as the ethernet address >> blindly (without any form of checking if get_registers() worked >> as expected, or not). > Right, and if you are going to check for errors then you have to > handle the error properly. > > And the proper way to handle this error is to set a random ethernet > address on the device. Yes, I've understood that now. I've prepared and tested a v3 accordingly, and will have it sent in soon en= ough. Thank you so much for this!=A0 :) Thanks, Anant _______________________________________________ Linux-kernel-mentees mailing list Linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kernel-mentees