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-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index e4ff0adf5523..69a3e544676c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -8781,14 +8781,14 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa,
return -EINVAL;
if (!netif_device_present(dev))
return -ENODEV;
- if (!memcmp(dev->dev_addr, sa->sa_data, dev->addr_len))
- return 0;
err = dev_pre_changeaddr_notify(dev, sa->sa_data, extack);
if (err)
return err;
- err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa);
- if (err)
- return err;
+ if (memcmp(dev->dev_addr, sa->sa_data, dev->addr_len)) {
+ err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
dev->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_SET;
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev);
add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);