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Commit 406f42fa

 ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev->dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.

Do the special encoding on the stack, then copy the address.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-5-kuba@kernel.org