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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 06/13] net: bmac: Fix read of MAC address from ROM

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-05-28 12:01:44
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>

[ Upstream commit ef01cee2ee1b369c57a936166483d40942bcc3e3 ]

In bmac_get_station_address, We're reading two bytes at a time from ROM,
but we do that six times, resulting in 12 bytes of read & writes. This
means we will write off the end of the six-byte destination buffer.

This change fixes the for-loop to only read/write six bytes.

Based on a proposed fix from Finn Thain [off-list ref].

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Reported-by: Stan Johnson <redacted>
Tested-by: Stan Johnson <redacted>
Reported-by: Finn Thain <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/apple/bmac.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/bmac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/bmac.c
index eac740c476ce..a8b462e1beba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/bmac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/apple/bmac.c
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ bmac_get_station_address(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char *ea)
 	int i;
 	unsigned short data;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
 		{
 			reset_and_select_srom(dev);
 			data = read_srom(dev, i + EnetAddressOffset/2, SROMAddressBits);
-- 
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