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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 07:47:49 +0200 |
| commit | e775c2bc95000ccb3fbdb6e404caf205859e360e (patch) | |
| tree | 2725cb718181dc6ab4be1731b8dd5be9215c89e2 /drivers/net | |
| parent | b5dd1888d3c6de1878e0d5d30c2e57c3f6b5205a (diff) | |
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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/net')
| -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 850f8af95e49..043b695d2a61 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c @@ -4187,6 +4187,7 @@ 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; |