I'd like to request the following commit [1] go to -stable. It fixes a regression (as far back as kernel v4.17) where the default MAC address is computed incorrectly. This can have pretty nasty effects when upgrading kernels, since people don't expect their HW MAC address to change.
It probably should have had this tag, for the record:
Fixes: 864164683678 ("mwifiex: set different mac address for interfaces with same bss type")
Thanks, Brian
[1] commit 7afb94da3cd8a28ed7ae268143117bf1ac8a3371 Author: Sharvari Harisangam sharvari@marvell.com Date: Wed Jun 12 20:42:11 2019 +0530
mwifiex: update set_mac_address logic
In set_mac_address, driver check for interfaces with same bss_type For first STA entry, this would return 3 interfaces since all priv's have bss_type as 0 due to kzalloc. Thus mac address gets changed for STA unexpected. This patch adds check for first STA and avoids mac address change. This patch also adds mac_address change for p2p based on bss_num type.
Signed-off-by: Sharvari Harisangam sharvari@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat gbhat@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org