e1000: unset IFF_UNICAST_FLT on WMware 82545EM
authorFrancesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@aristanetworks.com>
Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:29:24 +0000 (15:29 +0000)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:47:39 +0000 (04:47 -0700)
VMWare's e1000 implementation does not seem to support unicast filtering.
This can be observed by configuring a macvlan interface on eth0 in a VM in
VMWare Fusion 5.0.5, and trying to use that interface instead of eth0.
Tested on 3.16.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c

index 5f6aded..24f3986 100644 (file)
@@ -1075,7 +1075,10 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
                                  NETIF_F_HW_CSUM |
                                  NETIF_F_SG);
 
-       netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
+       /* Do not set IFF_UNICAST_FLT for VMWare's 82545EM */
+       if (hw->device_id != E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER ||
+           hw->subsystem_vendor_id != PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE)
+               netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
 
        adapter->en_mng_pt = e1000_enable_mng_pass_thru(hw);