* ieee802154_is_valid_psdu_len - check if extended addr is valid
  * @addr: extended addr to check
  */
-static inline bool ieee802154_is_valid_extended_addr(const __le64 addr)
+static inline bool ieee802154_is_valid_extended_unicast_addr(const __le64 addr)
 {
-       /* These EUI-64 addresses are reserved by IEEE. 0xffffffffffffffff
-        * is used internally as extended to short address broadcast mapping.
-        * This is currently a workaround because neighbor discovery can't
-        * deal with short addresses types right now.
+       /* Bail out if the address is all zero, or if the group
+        * address bit is set.
         */
        return ((addr != cpu_to_le64(0x0000000000000000ULL)) &&
-               (addr != cpu_to_le64(0xffffffffffffffffULL)));
+               !(addr & cpu_to_le64(0x0100000000000000ULL)));
 }
 
 /**
 
                return -EBUSY;
 
        ieee802154_be64_to_le64(&extended_addr, addr->sa_data);
-       if (!ieee802154_is_valid_extended_addr(extended_addr))
+       if (!ieee802154_is_valid_extended_unicast_addr(extended_addr))
                return -EINVAL;
 
        memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
        switch (type) {
        case NL802154_IFTYPE_NODE:
                ndev->type = ARPHRD_IEEE802154;
-               if (ieee802154_is_valid_extended_addr(extended_addr))
+               if (ieee802154_is_valid_extended_unicast_addr(extended_addr))
                        ieee802154_le64_to_be64(ndev->dev_addr, &extended_addr);
                else
                        memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr,