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Commit 465fc643 authored by Emil Tantilov's avatar Emil Tantilov Committed by Jeff Kirsher
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ixgbevf: fix spoofed packets with random MAC



If ixgbevf is loaded while the corresponding PF interface is down
and the driver assigns a random MAC address, that address can be
overwritten with the value of hw->mac.perm_addr, which would be 0 at
that point.

To avoid this case we init hw->mac.perm_addr to the randomly generated
address and do not set it unless we receive ACK from ixgbe.

Reported-by: default avatarJohn Greene <jogreene@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEmil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKrishneil Singh <Krishneil.k.singh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
parent 91a76baa
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