This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wl3501_cs: use eth_hw_addr_set()
to the 4.19-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:
wl3501_cs-use-eth_hw_addr_set.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 377134b648d92ee9684576ff1522558cbf0c7a5e
Author: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 18 16:50:20 2021 -0700
wl3501_cs: use eth_hw_addr_set()
[ Upstream commit 18774612246d036c04ce9fee7f67192f96f48725 ]
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.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-15-kuba@xxxxxxxxxx
Stable-dep-of: 391af06a02e7 ("wifi: wl3501_cs: Fix an error handling path in wl3501_probe()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c
index c6d1a320e244f..46188a83d8be8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c
@@ -1946,8 +1946,7 @@ static int wl3501_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
goto failed;
}
- for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
- dev->dev_addr[i] = ((char *)&this->mac_addr)[i];
+ eth_hw_addr_set(dev, this->mac_addr);
/* print probe information */
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: wl3501 @ 0x%3.3x, IRQ %d, "
