From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:35:33 +0100
Subject: r8169: fix incorrect mac address assignment
Patch-mainline: v5.16-rc3
Git-commit: c75a9ad43691de040bead75f1924928111571f9c
References: jsc#PED-1565
The original changes brakes MAC address assignment on older chip
versions (see bug report [0]), and it brakes random MAC assignment.
is_valid_ether_addr() requires that its argument is word-aligned.
Add the missing alignment to array mac_addr.
[0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215087
Fixes: 1c5d09d58748 ("ethernet: r8169: use eth_hw_addr_set()")
Reported-by: Richard Herbert <rherbert@sympatico.ca>
Tested-by: Richard Herbert <rherbert@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -5233,8 +5233,8 @@ static int rtl_get_ether_clk(struct rtl8
static void rtl_init_mac_address(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
{
+ u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2) = {};
struct net_device *dev = tp->dev;
- u8 mac_addr[ETH_ALEN];
int rc;
rc = eth_platform_get_mac_address(tp_to_dev(tp), mac_addr);
@@ -5249,7 +5249,8 @@ static void rtl_init_mac_address(struct
if (is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr))
goto done;
- eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
+ eth_random_addr(mac_addr);
+ dev->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_RANDOM;
dev_warn(tp_to_dev(tp), "can't read MAC address, setting random one\n");
done:
eth_hw_addr_set(dev, mac_addr);