From: Emil Tantilov Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 18:16:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ixgbevf: fix MAC address changes through ixgbevf_set_mac() X-Git-Tag: v4.9.117~66 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d02fc16faaa1f29500fdda143ef99855d6b9518;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-amlogic.git 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 Tested-by: Andrew Bowers Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c index 1499ce2bf9f6..029513294984 100644 --- 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_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;