On Tuesday, 19 October 2021 21:06:54 CEST Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:39:27 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev->dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.

Convert batman from ether_addr_copy() to eth_hw_addr_set():

  @@
  expression dev, np;
  @@
  - ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, np)
  + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Extending CC list.

Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
index 0604b0279573..7ee09337fc40 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static int batadv_interface_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
 		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
 
 	ether_addr_copy(old_addr, dev->dev_addr);
-	ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
+	eth_hw_addr_set(dev, addr->sa_data);
 
 	/* only modify transtable if it has been initialized before */
 	if (atomic_read(&bat_priv->mesh_state) != BATADV_MESH_ACTIVE)