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* [PATCH net] be2net: don't {en,dis}able filters on BE3 when transparent tagging is enabled
@ 2016-02-26  8:46 Ivan Vecera
  2016-02-26 11:36 ` Sathya Perla
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Vecera @ 2016-02-26  8:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: Sathya Perla, Sriharsha Basavapatna

The FILTMGMT privilege is necessary on BE3 chip to manipulare filters
like MC, UC list management, VLAN filter, promisc mode... This privilege
is dropped for VFs when transparrent tagging is enabled on them. This
prevents to make interface up for such VF because be_enable_if_filters()
called from be_open() fails thus be_open() also fails.

Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@broadcom.com>
Cc: Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
index f99de36..2e176f6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
@@ -3430,7 +3430,8 @@ static int be_close(struct net_device *netdev)
 	if (!(adapter->flags & BE_FLAGS_SETUP_DONE))
 		return 0;
 
-	be_disable_if_filters(adapter);
+	if (!(BEx_chip(adapter) && be_pvid_tagging_enabled(adapter)))
+		be_disable_if_filters(adapter);
 
 	if (adapter->flags & BE_FLAGS_NAPI_ENABLED) {
 		for_all_evt_queues(adapter, eqo, i) {
@@ -3571,9 +3572,11 @@ static int be_open(struct net_device *netdev)
 	if (status)
 		goto err;
 
-	status = be_enable_if_filters(adapter);
-	if (status)
-		goto err;
+	if (!(BEx_chip(adapter) && be_pvid_tagging_enabled(adapter))) {
+		status = be_enable_if_filters(adapter);
+		if (status)
+			goto err;
+	}
 
 	status = be_irq_register(adapter);
 	if (status)
-- 
2.4.10

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2016-02-26  8:46 [PATCH net] be2net: don't {en,dis}able filters on BE3 when transparent tagging is enabled Ivan Vecera
2016-02-26 11:36 ` Sathya Perla
2016-02-26 12:24   ` Ivan Vecera
2016-02-26 12:44     ` Sathya Perla
2016-02-26 13:13       ` Ivan Vecera
2016-02-29  4:11         ` Sathya Perla

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