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From: Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe@gnome.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:19:37 -0500
Subject: wl: Fix mac address setting

The function was returning BCM_UNSUPPORTED (-23) when the device did not
allow for mac address changes. This however corresponds to "too many
files open" so userspace was getting conflicting info on what was
happening. Example:

$ ip link set wlp3s0 address  3c:15:c2:cf:29:dd
  RTNETLINK answers: Too many open files in system

Now the function properly returns -EADDRNOTAVAIL instead.

This fixes the popular error where NetworkManager is unable to connect
to wifi networks when wifi.scan-rand-mac-addr=yes (the default) or other
mac-addr options are in use (see the work around supplied by
wpasupplicant in /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf)

Also, the function was incorrectly changing the `net_device->dev_addr`
even when the hardware had not been able to change it.
---
 amd64/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c b/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
index 4f5e43a..acdac06 100644
--- a/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
+++ bsrc/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
@@ -1848,15 +1848,17 @@ wl_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *addr)
 	WL_TRACE(("wl%d: wl_set_mac_address\n", wl->pub->unit));
 
 	WL_LOCK(wl);
-
-	bcopy(sa->sa_data, dev->dev_addr, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);
 	err = wlc_iovar_op(wl->wlc, "cur_etheraddr", NULL, 0, sa->sa_data, ETHER_ADDR_LEN,
 		IOV_SET, (WL_DEV_IF(dev))->wlcif);
 	WL_UNLOCK(wl);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
 		WL_ERROR(("wl%d: wl_set_mac_address: error setting MAC addr override\n",
 			wl->pub->unit));
-	return err;
+		return OSL_ERROR(err);
+	} else {
+		bcopy(sa->sa_data, dev->dev_addr, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);
+		return 0;
+	}
 }
 
 static void