The driver generates a random MAC once on load and uses it over and over, including on two devices needing a random MAC at the same time. Jakub suggested revamping the driver to the modern API for setting a random MAC rather than fixing the old stuff. The bug is as old as the driver. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> --- v2: Correct commentary style drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c index dfc37016690b..40536e1cb4df 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c @@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ -// randomly generated ethernet address -static u8 node_id [ETH_ALEN]; - /* use ethtool to change the level for any given device */ static int msg_level = -1; module_param (msg_level, int, 0); @@ -1743,7 +1740,6 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod) dev->net = net; strscpy(net->name, "usb%d", sizeof(net->name)); - eth_hw_addr_set(net, node_id); /* rx and tx sides can use different message sizes; * bind() should set rx_urb_size in that case. @@ -1819,9 +1815,9 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod) goto out4; } - /* let userspace know we have a random address */ - if (ether_addr_equal(net->dev_addr, node_id)) - net->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_RANDOM; + /* this flags the device for user space */ + if (!is_valid_ether_addr(net->dev_addr)) + eth_hw_addr_random(net); if ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_WLAN) != 0) SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(net, &wlan_type); @@ -2229,7 +2225,6 @@ static int __init usbnet_init(void) BUILD_BUG_ON( sizeof_field(struct sk_buff, cb) < sizeof(struct skb_data)); - eth_random_addr(node_id); return 0; } module_init(usbnet_init); -- 2.45.2
