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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-07-04 21:23:25 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-07-14 20:17:46 -0400
commit7bf2357524408b97fec58344caf7397f8140c3fd (patch)
tree58da99c5a450934ce7520e2942b039aaf4467fcf /net
parentb04b3156a20d395a7faa8eed98698d1e17a36000 (diff)
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net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c3
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c1
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6df214041a5e..bdd1e88f60d3 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1172,6 +1172,7 @@ static int __dev_open(struct net_device *dev)
net_dmaengine_get();
dev_set_rx_mode(dev);
dev_activate(dev);
+ add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
}
return ret;
@@ -4763,6 +4764,7 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa)
err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa);
if (!err)
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev);
+ add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_mac_address);
@@ -5541,6 +5543,7 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
dev_init_scheduler(dev);
dev_hold(dev);
list_netdevice(dev);
+ add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
/* Notify protocols, that a new device appeared. */
ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_REGISTER, dev);
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 21318d15bbc3..f058e599d858 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1378,6 +1378,7 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
goto errout;
send_addr_notify = 1;
modified = 1;
+ add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
}
if (tb[IFLA_MTU]) {
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