On 04/10/20 1:08 am, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 13:02 +0530, Anant Thazhemadam wrote: >> When get_registers() fails (which happens when usb_control_msg() fails) >> in set_ethernet_addr(), the uninitialized value of node_id gets copied >> as the address. > unrelated trivia: > >> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c > [] >> @@ -274,12 +274,17 @@ static int write_mii_word(rtl8150_t * dev, u8 phy, __u8 indx, u16 reg) >> return 1; >> } >> >> -static inline void set_ethernet_addr(rtl8150_t * dev) >> +static bool set_ethernet_addr(rtl8150_t *dev) >> { >> u8 node_id[6]; > This might be better as: > > u8 node_id[ETH_ALEN]; > >> + int ret; >> >> - get_registers(dev, IDR, sizeof(node_id), node_id); >> - memcpy(dev->netdev->dev_addr, node_id, sizeof(node_id)); >> + ret = get_registers(dev, IDR, sizeof(node_id), node_id); >> + if (ret == sizeof(node_id)) { >> + memcpy(dev->netdev->dev_addr, node_id, sizeof(node_id)); > and > ether_addr_copy(dev->netdev->dev_addr, node_id); > > I will include this change as well, in the v3. Thank you for pointing that out. Thanks, Anant