Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: bgmac: mac address change bug

From: RafaÅ MiÅecki
Date: Wed Feb 01 2017 - 19:29:05 EST


On 02/01/2017 11:39 PM, Jon Mason wrote:
From: Hari Vyas <hariv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

ndo_set_mac_address() passes struct sockaddr * as 2nd parameter to
bgmac_set_mac_address() but code assumed u8 *. This caused two bytes
chopping and the wrong mac address was configured.

Signed-off-by: Hari Vyas <hariv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4e209001b86 ("bgmac: write mac address to hardware in ndo_set_mac_address")

Sounds OK, would it make sense to Cc stable?