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| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 2e2448201a76..594830e83589 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -6004,6 +6004,13 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) list_netdevice(dev); add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len); + /* If the device has permanent device address, driver should + * set dev_addr and also addr_assign_type should be set to + * NET_ADDR_PERM (default value). + */ + if (dev->addr_assign_type == NET_ADDR_PERM) + memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len); + /* Notify protocols, that a new device appeared. */ ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_REGISTER, dev); ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); |