This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
of: net: add a helper for loading netdev->dev_addr
to the 5.15-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:
of-net-add-a-helper-for-loading-netdev-dev_addr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7fdd227d5d07e585d16f0bf5cc66bef00028e9c4
Author: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 6 18:06:55 2021 -0700
of: net: add a helper for loading netdev->dev_addr
[ Upstream commit d466effe282ddbab6acb6c3120c1de0ee1b86d57 ]
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 are roughly 40 places where netdev->dev_addr is passed
as the destination to a of_get_mac_address() call. Add a helper
which takes a dev pointer instead, so it can call an appropriate
helper.
Note that of_get_mac_address() already assumes the address is
6 bytes long (ETH_ALEN) so use eth_hw_addr_set().
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 1d6d537dc55d ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: handle probe deferral")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/of_net.h b/include/linux/of_net.h
index 55460ecfa50ad..0484b613ca647 100644
--- a/include/linux/of_net.h
+++ b/include/linux/of_net.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
struct net_device;
extern int of_get_phy_mode(struct device_node *np, phy_interface_t *interface);
extern int of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np, u8 *mac);
+int of_get_ethdev_address(struct device_node *np, struct net_device *dev);
extern struct net_device *of_find_net_device_by_node(struct device_node *np);
#else
static inline int of_get_phy_mode(struct device_node *np,
@@ -27,6 +28,11 @@ static inline int of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np, u8 *mac)
return -ENODEV;
}
+static inline int of_get_ethdev_address(struct device_node *np, struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ return -ENODEV;
+}
+
static inline struct net_device *of_find_net_device_by_node(struct device_node *np)
{
return NULL;
diff --git a/net/core/of_net.c b/net/core/of_net.c
index dbac3a172a11e..f1a9bf7578e7a 100644
--- a/net/core/of_net.c
+++ b/net/core/of_net.c
@@ -143,3 +143,28 @@ int of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np, u8 *addr)
return of_get_mac_addr_nvmem(np, addr);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_mac_address);
+
+/**
+ * of_get_ethdev_address()
+ * @np: Caller's Device Node
+ * @dev: Pointer to netdevice which address will be updated
+ *
+ * Search the device tree for the best MAC address to use.
+ * If found set @dev->dev_addr to that address.
+ *
+ * See documentation of of_get_mac_address() for more information on how
+ * the best address is determined.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success and errno in case of error.
+ */
+int of_get_ethdev_address(struct device_node *np, struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = of_get_mac_address(np, addr);
+ if (!ret)
+ eth_hw_addr_set(dev, addr);
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_ethdev_address);
