From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:20:01 -0700
Subject: net/mlx5e: don't write directly to netdev->dev_addr
Patch-mainline: v5.16-rc1
Git-commit: 537e4d2e6fe3c5481c49e0424f4950cc89c746ec
References: jsc#PED-1565

Use a local buffer and eth_hw_addr_set()

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
@@ -4432,13 +4432,17 @@ void mlx5e_build_nic_params(struct mlx5e
 static void mlx5e_set_netdev_dev_addr(struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct mlx5e_priv *priv = netdev_priv(netdev);
+	u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
 
-	mlx5_query_mac_address(priv->mdev, netdev->dev_addr);
-	if (is_zero_ether_addr(netdev->dev_addr) &&
+	mlx5_query_mac_address(priv->mdev, addr);
+	if (is_zero_ether_addr(addr) &&
 	    !MLX5_CAP_GEN(priv->mdev, vport_group_manager)) {
 		eth_hw_addr_random(netdev);
 		mlx5_core_info(priv->mdev, "Assigned random MAC address %pM\n", netdev->dev_addr);
+		return;
 	}
+
+	eth_hw_addr_set(netdev, addr);
 }
 
 static int mlx5e_vxlan_set_port(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int table,