Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
@@ -266,8 +266,11 @@ void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, struct net_device *dev,
static int eth_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
{
struct sockaddr *addr = p;
+
if (netif_running(dev))
return -EBUSY;
+ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
+ return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
return 0;
}