4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com
[ 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 --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- 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_de 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;