On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 08:53:20AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.
>
> There is a handful of drivers which pass netdev->dev_addr as
> the destination buffer to device_get_mac_address(). Add a helper
> which takes a dev pointer instead, so it can call an appropriate
> helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/property.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/property.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
