4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ [ Upstream commit a830405ee452ddc4101c3c9334e6fedd42c6b357 ] Currently stmmac driver not copying the valid ethernet MAC address to MAC registers. This patch takes care of updating the MAC register with MAC address. Signed-off-by: Bhadram Varka <vbhad...@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -2931,6 +2931,20 @@ static int stmmac_ioctl(struct net_devic return ret; } +static int stmmac_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *addr) +{ + struct stmmac_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev); + int ret = 0; + + ret = eth_mac_addr(ndev, addr); + if (ret) + return ret; + + priv->hw->mac->set_umac_addr(priv->hw, ndev->dev_addr, 0); + + return ret; +} + #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS static struct dentry *stmmac_fs_dir; @@ -3137,7 +3151,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops stmma #ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER .ndo_poll_controller = stmmac_poll_controller, #endif - .ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr, + .ndo_set_mac_address = stmmac_set_mac_address, }; /**