return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * ethnl_bitmap32_equal() - Compare two bitmaps
+ * @map1:  first bitmap
+ * @map2:  second bitmap
+ * @nbits: bit size to compare
+ *
+ * Return: true if first @nbits are equal, false if not
+ */
+static bool ethnl_bitmap32_equal(const u32 *map1, const u32 *map2,
+                                unsigned int nbits)
+{
+       if (memcmp(map1, map2, nbits / 32 * sizeof(u32)))
+               return false;
+       if (nbits % 32 == 0)
+               return true;
+       return !((map1[nbits / 32] ^ map2[nbits / 32]) &
+                ethnl_lower_bits(nbits % 32));
+}
+
 static int
 ethnl_update_bitset32_verbose(u32 *bitmap, unsigned int nbits,
                              const struct nlattr *attr, struct nlattr **tb,
                              ethnl_string_array_t names,
                              struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, bool *mod)
 {
+       u32 *saved_bitmap = NULL;
        struct nlattr *bit_attr;
        bool no_mask;
        int rem;
        }
 
        no_mask = tb[ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_NOMASK];
-       if (no_mask)
-               ethnl_bitmap32_clear(bitmap, 0, nbits, mod);
+       if (no_mask) {
+               unsigned int nwords = DIV_ROUND_UP(nbits, 32);
+               unsigned int nbytes = nwords * sizeof(u32);
+               bool dummy;
+
+               /* The bitmap size is only the size of the map part without
+                * its mask part.
+                */
+               saved_bitmap = kcalloc(nwords, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (!saved_bitmap)
+                       return -ENOMEM;
+               memcpy(saved_bitmap, bitmap, nbytes);
+               ethnl_bitmap32_clear(bitmap, 0, nbits, &dummy);
+       }
 
        nla_for_each_nested(bit_attr, tb[ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS], rem) {
                bool old_val, new_val;
                if (nla_type(bit_attr) != ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS_BIT) {
                        NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, bit_attr,
                                            "only ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS_BIT allowed in ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS");
+                       kfree(saved_bitmap);
                        return -EINVAL;
                }
                ret = ethnl_parse_bit(&idx, &new_val, nbits, bit_attr, no_mask,
                                      names, extack);
-               if (ret < 0)
+               if (ret < 0) {
+                       kfree(saved_bitmap);
                        return ret;
+               }
                old_val = bitmap[idx / 32] & ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
                if (new_val != old_val) {
                        if (new_val)
                                bitmap[idx / 32] |= ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
                        else
                                bitmap[idx / 32] &= ~((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
-                       *mod = true;
+                       if (!no_mask)
+                               *mod = true;
                }
        }
 
+       if (no_mask && !ethnl_bitmap32_equal(saved_bitmap, bitmap, nbits))
+               *mod = true;
+
+       kfree(saved_bitmap);
        return 0;
 }