From: Lijun Pan Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:04:56 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ibmvnic: fix ibmvnic_set_mac X-Git-Tag: v5.8.18~33 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6f6e3f978853a180631b541072051509665694d;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git ibmvnic: fix ibmvnic_set_mac [ Upstream commit 8fc3672a8ad3e782bac80e979bc2a2c10960cbe9 ] Jakub Kicinski brought up a concern in ibmvnic_set_mac(). ibmvnic_set_mac() does this: ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, addr->sa_data); if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED) rc = __ibmvnic_set_mac(netdev, addr->sa_data); So if state == VNIC_PROBED, the user can assign an invalid address to adapter->mac_addr, and ibmvnic_set_mac() will still return 0. The fix is to validate ethernet address at the beginning of ibmvnic_set_mac(), and move the ether_addr_copy to the case of "adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED". Fixes: c26eba03e407 ("ibmvnic: Update reset infrastructure to support tunable parameters") Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201027220456.71450-1-ljp@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c index 3e0aab04d86fb..f96bb3dab5a8b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -1828,9 +1828,13 @@ static int ibmvnic_set_mac(struct net_device *netdev, void *p) int rc; rc = 0; - ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, addr->sa_data); - if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED) + if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data)) + return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; + + if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED) { + ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, addr->sa_data); rc = __ibmvnic_set_mac(netdev, addr->sa_data); + } return rc; }