Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: fall back to random mac address

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On 7/13/22 09:55, Martin Kaiser wrote:
Call eth_random_addr to generate a random mac address if we cannot load
the mac address from the efuses.

Do not use a constant mac address as fallback. This may create conflicts
if we have several r8188eu devices on the network.

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c | 3 +--
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c
index 68d012a442a8..8902dda7b8d8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c
@@ -912,11 +912,10 @@ unsigned int rtl8188eu_inirp_init(struct adapter *Adapter)
static void Hal_EfuseParseMACAddr_8188EU(struct adapter *adapt, u8 *hwinfo, bool AutoLoadFail)
  {
-	u8 sMacAddr[6] = {0x00, 0xE0, 0x4C, 0x81, 0x88, 0x02};
  	struct eeprom_priv *eeprom = &adapt->eeprompriv;
if (AutoLoadFail) {
-		memcpy(eeprom->mac_addr, sMacAddr, ETH_ALEN);
+		eth_random_addr(eeprom->mac_addr);
  	} else {
  		/* Read Permanent MAC address */
  		memcpy(eeprom->mac_addr, &hwinfo[EEPROM_MAC_ADDR_88EU], ETH_ALEN);

Tested with:

static void Hal_EfuseParseMACAddr_8188EU(struct adapter *adapt, u8 *hwinfo, bool AutoLoadFail)
{
	struct eeprom_priv *eeprom = &adapt->eeprompriv;
	struct dvobj_priv *dvobj = adapter_to_dvobj(adapt);
	struct device *device = dvobj_to_dev(dvobj);

	dev_info(device, "AutoLoadFail: %i", AutoLoadFail);

	if (!AutoLoadFail) {
		eth_random_addr(eeprom->mac_addr);
	} else {
		/* Read Permanent MAC address */
		memcpy(eeprom->mac_addr, &hwinfo[EEPROM_MAC_ADDR_88EU], ETH_ALEN);
	}
	dev_info(device, "Test - MAC Address = %pM\n", eeprom->mac_addr);
}

Log:
[ 1799.018943] r8188eu 2-1.6:1.0: AutoLoadFail: 0
[ 1799.018969] r8188eu 2-1.6:1.0: Test - MAC Address = be:0a:e8:72:a8:4a
[ 1866.151995] r8188eu 2-1.6:1.0: AutoLoadFail: 0
[ 1866.152014] r8188eu 2-1.6:1.0: Test - MAC Address = 76:9b:4f:91:28:5f
[ 1900.266003] r8188eu 2-1.6:1.0: AutoLoadFail: 0
[ 1900.266008] r8188eu 2-1.6:1.0: Test - MAC Address = 5e:9d:d5:f5:ef:26


Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@xxxxxxxxx> # Edimax N150







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