[PATCH] mach-snapdragon: Fix overwriting last digit of serial number

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Mar 20 18:31:13 CET 2020


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 05:51:51PM +0100, Jan-Christoph Tebbe wrote:

> When generating the MAC address based on the boards serial number
> the last digit was overwritten with the null termination. That way
> boards with serial numbers close to each other would use the same
> MAC address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Christoph Tebbe <Jan-Christoph.Tebbe at ithinx.io>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/misc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/misc.c b/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/misc.c
> index f6c87866c0..aaa561c2c6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/misc.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/misc.c
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ void msm_generate_mac_addr(u8 *mac)
>   int i;
>   char sn[9];
> 
> - snprintf(sn, 8, "%08x", msm_board_serial());
> + snprintf(sn, 9, "%08x", msm_board_serial());
> 
>   /* fill in the mac with serialno, use locally adminstrated pool */
>   mac[0] = 0x02;

OK, so sn is size 9 and now you're filling the whole thing.  Why don't
we need to increase sn to size 10?  Am I missing something?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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