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authorJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>2015-08-19 11:46:42 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-08-20 14:36:25 -0700
commit2f710a3a8089c12dfe3c0cf04bb0a3dee3dea019 (patch)
treeb02f63ac4753c1b56296de90dca2e000169e0ff5 /drivers/base
parentef09242f3997f5fa063bcfa918d3ce4c4485376c (diff)
device property: Add ETH_ALEN check, update comments.
This patch adds MAC address length check back into the device_get_mac_addr() function before calling is_valid_ether_addr() similar to the way the OF routine does it. Update the comments for the two new functions. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/property.c21
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/property.c b/drivers/base/property.c
index 2e8cd147f02d..4c2082899322 100644
--- a/drivers/base/property.c
+++ b/drivers/base/property.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ bool device_dma_is_coherent(struct device *dev)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_dma_is_coherent);
/**
- * device_get_phy_mode - Get phy mode for given device_node
+ * device_get_phy_mode - Get phy mode for given device
* @dev: Pointer to the given device
*
* The function gets phy interface string from property 'phy-mode' or
@@ -570,13 +570,18 @@ static void *device_get_mac_addr(struct device *dev,
{
int ret = device_property_read_u8_array(dev, name, addr, alen);
- if (ret == 0 && is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
+ if (ret == 0 && alen == ETH_ALEN && is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
return addr;
return NULL;
}
/**
- * Search the device tree for the best MAC address to use. 'mac-address' is
+ * device_get_mac_address - Get the MAC for a given device
+ * @dev: Pointer to the device
+ * @addr: Address of buffer to store the MAC in
+ * @alen: Length of the buffer pointed to by addr, should be ETH_ALEN
+ *
+ * Search the firmware node for the best MAC address to use. 'mac-address' is
* checked first, because that is supposed to contain to "most recent" MAC
* address. If that isn't set, then 'local-mac-address' is checked next,
* because that is the default address. If that isn't set, then the obsolete
@@ -587,11 +592,11 @@ static void *device_get_mac_addr(struct device *dev,
* MAC address.
*
* All-zero MAC addresses are rejected, because those could be properties that
- * exist in the device tree, but were not set by U-Boot. For example, the
- * DTS could define 'mac-address' and 'local-mac-address', with zero MAC
- * addresses. Some older U-Boots only initialized 'local-mac-address'. In
- * this case, the real MAC is in 'local-mac-address', and 'mac-address' exists
- * but is all zeros.
+ * exist in the firmware tables, but were not updated by the firmware. For
+ * example, the DTS could define 'mac-address' and 'local-mac-address', with
+ * zero MAC addresses. Some older U-Boots only initialized 'local-mac-address'.
+ * In this case, the real MAC is in 'local-mac-address', and 'mac-address'
+ * exists but is all zeros.
*/
void *device_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, char *addr, int alen)
{