From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emil Tantilov Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 11:16:16 -0700 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 2/2] ixgbevf: fix MAC address changes through ixgbevf_set_mac() In-Reply-To: <20180514181449.26797.30080.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> References: <20180514181449.26797.30080.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Message-ID: <20180514181616.26797.73490.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: 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 --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c index 9a939dc..0830411 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c @@ -4164,6 +4164,7 @@ 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;