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net/eth/ibmveth: Fixup retrieval of MAC address
authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 3 May 2013 17:19:01 +0000 (17:19 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 11 May 2013 20:48:06 +0000 (13:48 -0700)
commite233f3f5c5c7a6f66dadbf21965684976fbb4de6
treea57c3cfeed4cf11387b54254c04a84211f48ae42
parent5cc4561cbfd436871f25c5bd8fc1bce7f199386d
net/eth/ibmveth: Fixup retrieval of MAC address

commit 13f85203e1060da83d9ec1c1c5a63343eaab8de4 upstream.

Some ancient pHyp versions used to create a 8 bytes local-mac-address
property in the device-tree instead of a 6 bytes one for veth.

The Linux driver code to deal with that is an insane hack which also
happens to break with some choices of MAC addresses in qemu by testing
for a bit in the address rather than just looking at the size of the
property.

Sanitize this by doing the latter instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c