On 20.10.21 17:56, 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. > > Make sure local references to netdev->dev_addr are constant. > Acked-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks Jakub. I suppose at some point __dev_addr_set() will then become more than just a memcpy, correct?