Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] validate MAC address before call .ndo_set_mac_address | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:58:59 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 16:42 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote: > Validate the given MAC address directly in dev_set_mac_address() > if a .ndo_validate_addr function is available before calling > the .ndo_set_mac_address function. > > Changed .ndo_validate_addr to take a second parameter containing > a sockaddr struct to be checked instead of the net_device dev_addr. > The behaviour of .ndo_validate_addr is now: if the second parameter > is NULL the net_device->dev_addr gets validate, if != NULL > the given parameter/sockaddr gets validated instead. > > This patch series include adaptations for some drivers which > use .ndo_set_mac_address functions directly - to prevent double > checks and to enable validations via .ndo_validate_addr. [...]
You have to do this as a single patch. The kernel and drivers should still build at each stage.
Ben.
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