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| author | Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> | 2018-05-14 11:16:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-08-03 07:55:20 +0200 |
| commit | 8d02fc16faaa1f29500fdda143ef99855d6b9518 (patch) | |
| tree | abb3d0c86025a0711bb83283b99045379917f239 /drivers | |
| parent | e51f4fcfad77f932d104304a2e1f0473752f9a85 (diff) | |
ixgbevf: fix MAC address changes through ixgbevf_set_mac()
[ Upstream commit 6e7d0ba1e59b1a306761a731e67634c0f2efea2a ]
Set hw->mac.perm_addr in ixgbevf_set_mac() in order to avoid losing the
custom MAC on reset. This can happen in the following case:
>ip link set $vf address $mac
>ethtool -r $vf
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c index 1499ce2bf9f6..029513294984 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c @@ -3729,6 +3729,7 @@ static int ixgbevf_set_mac(struct net_device *netdev, void *p) return -EPERM; ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.addr, addr->sa_data); + ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.perm_addr, addr->sa_data); ether_addr_copy(netdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data); return 0; |