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: 9c4bf1ab2cab ("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>
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);
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);