[PATCH net-next v2 0/2] net: core: improvements to device lookup by hardware address.

[Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>]

The first patch adds a new dev_getbyhwaddr() helper function for
finding devices by hardware address when the RTNL lock is held. This
prevents PROVE_LOCKING warnings that occurred when RTNL was held but the
RCU read lock wasn't. The common address comparison logic is extracted
into dev_comp_addr() to avoid code duplication.

The second patch adds missing documentation for the return value of
dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu(), fixing a warning reported by NIPA. The kdoc
comment now properly specifies that the function returns either a
pointer to net_device or NULL when no matching device is found.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
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Changes in v2:
- Fixed the documentation (Jakub)
- Renamed the function from dev_getbyhwaddr_rtnl() to dev_getbyhwaddr()
  (Jakub)
- Exported the function in the header (Jakub)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250207-arm_fix_selftest-v1-1-487518d2fd1c@debian.org

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Breno Leitao (2):
      net: document return value of dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu()
      net: Add dev_getbyhwaddr_rtnl() helper

 include/linux/netdevice.h |  2 ++
 net/core/dev.c            | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 0d5248724ed8bc68c867c4c65dda625277f68fbc
change-id: 20250207-arm_fix_selftest-ee29dbc33a06

Best regards,
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Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>