Jakub Kicinski brought up a concern in ibmvnic_set_mac().
ibmvnic_set_mac() does this:

        ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, addr->sa_data);
        if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED)
                rc = __ibmvnic_set_mac(netdev, addr->sa_data);

So if state == VNIC_PROBED, the user can assign an invalid address to
adapter->mac_addr, and ibmvnic_set_mac() will still return 0.

The fix is to add the handling for "adapter->state == VNIC_PROBED" case,
which saves the old mac address back to adapter->mac_addr, and
returns an error code.

Fixes: 62740e97881c ("net/ibmvnic: Update MAC address settings after adapter 
reset")
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <l...@linux.ibm.com>
---
v2: change the subject from v1's 
    "ibmvnic: no need to update adapter->mac_addr before it completes"
    handle adapter->state==VNIC_PROBED case in else statement.

 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 4dd3625a4fbc..0d78e1e3d44c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1829,8 +1829,12 @@ static int ibmvnic_set_mac(struct net_device *netdev, 
void *p)
 
        rc = 0;
        ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, addr->sa_data);
-       if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED)
+       if (adapter->state != VNIC_PROBED) {
                rc = __ibmvnic_set_mac(netdev, addr->sa_data);
+       } else {
+               ether_addr_copy(adapter->mac_addr, netdev->dev_addr);
+               rc = -EIO;
+       }
 
        return rc;
 }
-- 
2.23.0

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