From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755658Ab2GESUQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:20:16 -0400 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:37063 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754025Ab2GESUN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:20:13 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Linux Kernel Developers List Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, w@1wt.eu, ewust@umich.edu, zakir@umich.edu, greg@kroah.com, mpm@selenic.com, nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu, jhalderm@umich.edu, tglx@linutronix.de, davem@davemloft.net, "Theodore Ts'o" , stable@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 05/10] net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:12:08 -0400 Message-Id: <1341511933-11169-6-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.11.1.108.gb129051 In-Reply-To: <1341511933-11169-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> References: <1341511933-11169-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Miller Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@kernel.org --- net/core/dev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 6df2140..46f2f0c 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5542,6 +5542,9 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) dev_hold(dev); list_netdevice(dev); + if (dev->dev_addr) + add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len); + /* Notify protocols, that a new device appeared. */ ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_REGISTER, dev); ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); -- 1.7.11.1.108.gb129051