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authorAlexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>2014-11-09 08:36:56 +0100
committerMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>2014-11-09 19:50:29 +0100
commitb03c9cccfa808f1b314097b162a36c3937cb818e (patch)
tree6843ec083549c77ea68ff16d4be22bfd34025bb6 /net/mac802154
parent4b96aea0fcdbba18287f6cca87c8d796f33157b6 (diff)
downloadlinux-b03c9cccfa808f1b314097b162a36c3937cb818e.tar.gz
mac820154: don't set monitor dev_addr
This patch removes the setting of dev_addr on a monitor device. This
address should be zero. A monitor should only sniff and send raw frames
out. The address should be never used by upper layers and receiving
frame parsing.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac802154')
-rw-r--r--net/mac802154/iface.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac802154/iface.c b/net/mac802154/iface.c
index 4630ceb25ad2..d635f367b03f 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/iface.c
@@ -416,12 +416,14 @@ ieee802154_setup_sdata(struct ieee802154_sub_if_data *sdata, int type)
 	/* for compatibility, actual default is 3 */
 	wpan_dev->frame_retries = -1;
 
-	ieee802154_be64_to_le64(&wpan_dev->extended_addr, sdata->dev->dev_addr);
 	wpan_dev->pan_id = cpu_to_le16(IEEE802154_PANID_BROADCAST);
 	wpan_dev->short_addr = cpu_to_le16(IEEE802154_ADDR_BROADCAST);
 
 	switch (type) {
 	case IEEE802154_DEV_WPAN:
+		ieee802154_be64_to_le64(&wpan_dev->extended_addr,
+					sdata->dev->dev_addr);
+
 		sdata->dev->header_ops = &mac802154_header_ops;
 		sdata->dev->destructor = mac802154_wpan_free;
 		sdata->dev->netdev_ops = &mac802154_wpan_ops;