From 0ec92a8f56ff07237dbe8af7c7a72aba7f957baf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Piotr Gardocki Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:21:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net: fix net device address assign type Commit ad72c4a06acc introduced optimization to return from function quickly if the MAC address is not changing at all. It was reported that such change causes dev->addr_assign_type to not change to NET_ADDR_SET from _PERM or _RANDOM. Restore the old behavior and skip only call to ndo_set_mac_address. Fixes: ad72c4a06acc ("net: add check for current MAC address in dev_set_mac_address") Reported-by: Gal Pressman Signed-off-by: Piotr Gardocki Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621132106.991342-1-piotrx.gardocki@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/core/dev.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index e4ff0ad..69a3e54 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -8781,14 +8781,14 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa, return -EINVAL; if (!netif_device_present(dev)) return -ENODEV; - if (!memcmp(dev->dev_addr, sa->sa_data, dev->addr_len)) - return 0; err = dev_pre_changeaddr_notify(dev, sa->sa_data, extack); if (err) return err; - err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa); - if (err) - return err; + if (memcmp(dev->dev_addr, sa->sa_data, dev->addr_len)) { + err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa); + if (err) + return err; + } dev->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_SET; call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev); add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len); -- 2.7.4