This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [PATCH stable 5.8 09/25] ibmvnic: save changed mac address to adapter->mac_addr to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ibmvnic-save-changed-mac-address-to-adapter-mac_addr.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Oct 24 10:56:27 AM CEST 2020 From: Lijun Pan <ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:39:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH stable 5.8 09/25] ibmvnic: save changed mac address to adapter->mac_addr From: Lijun Pan <ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d9b0e599b2b892422f1cbc5d2658049b895b2b58 ] After mac address change request completes successfully, the new mac address need to be saved to adapter->mac_addr as well as netdev->dev_addr. Otherwise, adapter->mac_addr still holds old data. Fixes: 62740e97881c ("net/ibmvnic: Update MAC address settings after adapter reset") Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201020223919.46106-1-ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -4194,8 +4194,13 @@ static int handle_change_mac_rsp(union i dev_err(dev, "Error %ld in CHANGE_MAC_ADDR_RSP\n", rc); goto out; } + /* crq->change_mac_addr.mac_addr is the requested one + * crq->change_mac_addr_rsp.mac_addr is the returned valid one. + */ ether_addr_copy(netdev->dev_addr, &crq->change_mac_addr_rsp.mac_addr[0]); + ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, + &crq->change_mac_addr_rsp.mac_addr[0]); out: complete(&adapter->fw_done); return rc; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.8/ibmvnic-save-changed-mac-address-to-adapter-mac_addr.patch