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| author | Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com> | 2015-05-20 11:09:30 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-05-21 18:43:53 -0400 |
| commit | cfc77c2fbadf5b806fea2e35738c7437fc62f522 (patch) | |
| tree | c4d96fa883fb33f07b9ecfb844bb8dc4ad030112 /drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | |
| parent | 88a37de674f8a7c7622bb00d78437153b31e3797 (diff) | |
sfc: save old MAC address in case sriov_mac_address_changed fails
Otherwise the PF and VF can disagree on the VF's MAC address and
this leads to strange behaviour, up to and including kernel panics.
Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c index 0f127a01b5e8..864c33789b8f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c @@ -2196,6 +2196,8 @@ static int efx_set_mac_address(struct net_device *net_dev, void *data) struct efx_nic *efx = netdev_priv(net_dev); struct sockaddr *addr = data; u8 *new_addr = addr->sa_data; + u8 old_addr[6]; + int rc; if (!is_valid_ether_addr(new_addr)) { netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, @@ -2204,9 +2206,16 @@ static int efx_set_mac_address(struct net_device *net_dev, void *data) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; } + /* save old address */ + ether_addr_copy(old_addr, net_dev->dev_addr); ether_addr_copy(net_dev->dev_addr, new_addr); - if (efx->type->sriov_mac_address_changed) - efx->type->sriov_mac_address_changed(efx); + if (efx->type->sriov_mac_address_changed) { + rc = efx->type->sriov_mac_address_changed(efx); + if (rc) { + ether_addr_copy(net_dev->dev_addr, old_addr); + return rc; + } + } /* Reconfigure the MAC */ mutex_lock(&efx->mac_lock); |