This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gianfar: Handle error code at MAC address change
to the 4.4-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:
gianfar-handle-error-code-at-mac-address-change.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5ea125477d875794e6c11558a47611b253698a70
Author: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 29 17:08:47 2021 +0300
gianfar: Handle error code at MAC address change
[ Upstream commit bff5b62585123823842833ab20b1c0a7fa437f8c ]
Handle return error code of eth_mac_addr();
Fixes: 3d23a05c75c7 ("gianfar: Enable changing mac addr when if up")
Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index bc00fa5e864f..fb135797688a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -485,7 +485,11 @@ static struct net_device_stats *gfar_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
static int gfar_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
{
- eth_mac_addr(dev, p);
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = eth_mac_addr(dev, p);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
gfar_set_mac_for_addr(dev, 0, dev->dev_addr);
