Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:38:49 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] net: usb: rtl8150: prevent set_ethernet_addr from setting uninit address | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:04:13 +0530
> But this patch is about ensuring that an uninitialized variable's > value (whatever that may be) is not set as the ethernet address > blindly (without any form of checking if get_registers() worked > as expected, or not).
Right, and if you are going to check for errors then you have to handle the error properly.
And the proper way to handle this error is to set a random ethernet address on the device.
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