netdev - Re: [PATCH] rose_dev: fix memcpy-bug in rose_set_mac

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Date:	Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:16:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	danborkmann@...earbox.net
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rose_dev: fix memcpy-bug in rose_set_mac_address

From: Daniel Borkmann <danborkmann@...earbox.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:47:43 +0200

> If both addresses equal, nothing needs to be done. If the device is down,
> then we simply copy the new address to dev->dev_addr. If the device is up,
> then we add another loopback device with the new address, and if that does
> not fail, we remove the loopback device with the old address. And only
> then, we update the dev->dev_addr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel.borkmann@....ee.ethz.ch>

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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