Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: virtio: use eth_hw_addr_set()

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:55:20 -0400

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 06:26:40AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:23:17 -0400 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > index c501b5974aee..b7f35aff8e82 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > @@ -3177,12 +3177,16 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> > >  	dev->max_mtu = MAX_MTU;
> > >  
> > >  	/* Configuration may specify what MAC to use.  Otherwise random. */
> > > -	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC))
> > > +	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC)) {
> > > +		u8 addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN];
> > > +
> > >  		virtio_cread_bytes(vdev,
> > >  				   offsetof(struct virtio_net_config, mac),
> > > -				   dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
> > > -	else
> > > +				   addr, dev->addr_len);  
> > 
> > Maybe BUG_ON(dev->addr_len > sizeof addr);
> > 
> > here just to make sure we don't overflow addr silently?
> 
> Since I need to post a v2 and we're talking... can I just use
> eth_hw_addr_set() instead? AFAICT netdev is always allocated with 
> alloc_etherdev_mq() and ->addr_len never changed. Plus there is 
> a number of Ethernet address helpers used so ETH_ALEN is kind of 
> already assumed.

Right. Sure, just document this in the commit log pls.

> > > +		dev_addr_set(dev, addr);
> > > +	} else {
> > >  		eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
> > > +	}
> > >  
> > >  	/* Set up our device-specific information */
> > >  	vi = netdev_priv(dev);