Commit 1d96cf98 authored Jan 05, 2016 by chas williams Committed by Jeff Kirsher Apr 04, 2016

ixgbe: Extend trust to allow guest to set unicast address



When running certain routing protocols like VRRP, VF guests need the
ability to set the unicast address of the interface.  Extend the new ndo
trust feature to let the hypervisor trust a guest to set/update its own
unicast address.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

parent d5dd7c3f

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ static int ixgbe_set_vf_mac_addr(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
		return -1;
		}

		if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac &&
		if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac && !adapter->vfinfo[vf].trusted &&
		!ether_addr_equal(adapter->vfinfo[vf].vf_mac_addresses, new_mac)) {
		e_warn(drv,
		"VF %d attempted to override administratively set MAC address\n"