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authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>2007-05-06 14:51:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-07 12:13:02 -0700
commite024715f5f6250179a31716a898800a48cf23b39 (patch)
tree2cba9702be41ff8263d1fb50825f6f17c9f40171 /arch/um
parent85ee2ce8ae7d6716beffc84451dd65cd217dbf7a (diff)
downloadlinux-e024715f5f6250179a31716a898800a48cf23b39.tar.gz
uml: improve checking and diagnostics of ethernet MACs
Improve checking and diagnostics for broadcast and multicast Ethernet MAC
addresses, and distinguish between those cases in output; also make sure the
device is assigned a MAC address valid only locally to avoid collisions.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c38
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
index 20963f106c34..cd466e30af67 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ void uml_net_user_timer_expire(unsigned long _conn)
 #endif
 }
 
-static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr)
+static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr, char *name)
 {
 	char *end;
 	int i;
@@ -302,15 +302,32 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr)
 		}
 		str = end + 1;
 	}
-	if(addr[0] & 1){
+	if (is_multicast_ether_addr(addr)) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR
-		       "Attempt to assign a broadcast ethernet address to a "
+		       "Attempt to assign a multicast ethernet address to a "
 		       "device disallowed\n");
 		goto random;
 	}
+	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr)) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR
+		       "Attempt to assign an invalid ethernet address to a "
+		       "device disallowed\n");
+		goto random;
+	}
+	if (!is_local_ether_addr(addr)) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+		       "Warning: attempt to assign a globally valid ethernet address to a "
+		       "device\n");
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "You should better enable the 2nd rightmost bit "
+		      "in the first byte of the MAC, i.e. "
+		      "%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n",
+		      addr[0] | 0x02, addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4], addr[5]);
+	}
 	return;
 
 random:
+	printk(KERN_INFO
+	       "Choosing a random ethernet address for device %s\n", name);
 	random_ether_addr(addr);
 }
 
@@ -331,6 +348,7 @@ static void eth_configure(int n, void *init, char *mac,
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct uml_net_private *lp;
 	int save, err, size;
+	char name[sizeof(dev->name)];
 
 	size = transport->private_size + sizeof(struct uml_net_private) +
 		sizeof(((struct uml_net_private *) 0)->user);
@@ -344,7 +362,13 @@ static void eth_configure(int n, void *init, char *mac,
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&device->list);
 	device->index = n;
 
-	setup_etheraddr(mac, device->mac);
+	/* If this name ends up conflicting with an existing registered
+	 * netdevice, that is OK, register_netdev{,ice}() will notice this
+	 * and fail.
+	 */
+	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "eth%d", n);
+
+	setup_etheraddr(mac, device->mac, name);
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Netdevice %d ", n);
 	printk("(%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x) ",
@@ -375,11 +399,7 @@ static void eth_configure(int n, void *init, char *mac,
 		goto out_free_netdev;
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev,&device->pdev.dev);
 
-	/* If this name ends up conflicting with an existing registered
-	 * netdevice, that is OK, register_netdev{,ice}() will notice this
-	 * and fail.
-	 */
-	snprintf(dev->name, sizeof(dev->name), "eth%d", n);
+	strcpy(dev->name, name);
 	device->dev = dev;
 
 	/*