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Message-Id: <20230413002905.5513-3-fr0st61te@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:29:03 +0000
From:   Ivan Mikhaylov <fr0st61te@...il.com>
To:     Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ivan Mikhaylov <fr0st61te@...il.com>,
        Paul Fertser <fercerpav@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] net/ncsi: change from ndo_set_mac_address to dev_set_mac_address

Change ndo_set_mac_address to dev_set_mac_address because
dev_set_mac_address provides a way to notify network layer about MAC
change. In other case, services may not aware about MAC change and keep
using old one which set from network adapter driver.

As example, DHCP client from systemd do not update MAC address without
notification from net subsystem which leads to the problem with acquiring
the right address from DHCP server.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <fr0st61te@...il.com>
---
 net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
index 91c42253a711..069c2659074b 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
@@ -616,7 +616,6 @@ static int ncsi_rsp_handler_oem_gma(struct ncsi_request *nr, int mfr_id)
 {
 	struct ncsi_dev_priv *ndp = nr->ndp;
 	struct net_device *ndev = ndp->ndev.dev;
-	const struct net_device_ops *ops = ndev->netdev_ops;
 	struct ncsi_rsp_oem_pkt *rsp;
 	struct sockaddr saddr;
 	u32 mac_addr_off = 0;
@@ -643,7 +642,9 @@ static int ncsi_rsp_handler_oem_gma(struct ncsi_request *nr, int mfr_id)
 	/* Set the flag for GMA command which should only be called once */
 	ndp->gma_flag = 1;
 
-	ret = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(ndev, &saddr);
+	rtnl_lock();
+	ret = dev_set_mac_address(ndev, &saddr, NULL);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	if (ret < 0)
 		netdev_warn(ndev, "NCSI: 'Writing mac address to device failed\n");
 
-- 
2.40.0

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