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authorEmil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>2015-10-12 10:56:00 -0700
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2015-11-23 11:08:51 -0800
commit465fc643c2dcbe08e0debac80c225f6750b40d3c (patch)
treebdc2676304a7b6eb9701d8a9d823b8cb177df154
parent91a76baadec1f30e8441c3d52c2559468a4da693 (diff)
ixgbevf: fix spoofed packets with random MAC
If ixgbevf is loaded while the corresponding PF interface is down and the driver assigns a random MAC address, that address can be overwritten with the value of hw->mac.perm_addr, which would be 0 at that point. To avoid this case we init hw->mac.perm_addr to the randomly generated address and do not set it unless we receive ACK from ixgbe. Reported-by: John Greene <jogreene@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <Krishneil.k.singh@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
index 47c71e1fe1ce..dbbd1be47462 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
@@ -2664,6 +2664,7 @@ static int ixgbevf_sw_init(struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter)
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Assigning random MAC address\n");
eth_hw_addr_random(netdev);
ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.addr, netdev->dev_addr);
+ ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.perm_addr, netdev->dev_addr);
}
/* Enable dynamic interrupt throttling rates */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c
index 427f3605cbfc..61a98f4c5746 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c
@@ -117,7 +117,9 @@ static s32 ixgbevf_reset_hw_vf(struct ixgbe_hw *hw)
msgbuf[0] != (IXGBE_VF_RESET | IXGBE_VT_MSGTYPE_NACK))
return IXGBE_ERR_INVALID_MAC_ADDR;
- ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.perm_addr, addr);
+ if (msgbuf[0] == (IXGBE_VF_RESET | IXGBE_VT_MSGTYPE_ACK))
+ ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.perm_addr, addr);
+
hw->mac.mc_filter_type = msgbuf[IXGBE_VF_MC_TYPE_WORD];
return 0;