Jakub Kicinski brought up a concern in ibmvnic_set_mac().
ibmvnic_set_mac() does this:
ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, addr->sa_data);
if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED)
rc = __ibmvnic_set_mac(netdev, addr->sa_data);
So if state == VNIC_PROBED, the user can assign an invalid address to
adapter->mac_addr, and ibmvnic_set_mac() will still return 0.
The fix is to add the handling for "adapter->state == VNIC_PROBED" case,
which saves the old mac address back to adapter->mac_addr, and
returns an error code.
Fixes: 62740e97881c ("net/ibmvnic: Update MAC address settings after adapter
reset")
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <[email protected]>
---
v2: change the subject from v1's
"ibmvnic: no need to update adapter->mac_addr before it completes"
handle adapter->state==VNIC_PROBED case in else statement.
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 4dd3625a4fbc..0d78e1e3d44c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1829,8 +1829,12 @@ static int ibmvnic_set_mac(struct net_device *netdev,
void *p)
rc = 0;
ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, addr->sa_data);
- if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED)
+ if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED) {
rc = __ibmvnic_set_mac(netdev, addr->sa_data);
+ } else {
+ ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, netdev->dev_addr);
+ rc = -EIO;
+ }
return rc;
}
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2.23.0