Patch "net/mlx4_core: Allow resetting VF admin mac to zero" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/mlx4_core: Allow resetting VF admin mac to zero

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-mlx4_core-allow-resetting-vf-admin-mac-to-zero.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 6e5224224faa50ec4c8949dcefadf895e565f0d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 17:47:46 +0200
Subject: net/mlx4_core: Allow resetting VF admin mac to zero

From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>

commit 6e5224224faa50ec4c8949dcefadf895e565f0d1 upstream.

The VF administrative mac addresses (stored in the PF driver) are
initialized to zero when the PF driver starts up.

These addresses may be modified in the PF driver through ndo calls
initiated by iproute2 or libvirt.

While we allow the PF/host to change the VF admin mac address from zero
to a valid unicast mac, we do not allow restoring the VF admin mac to
zero. We currently only allow changing this mac to a different unicast mac.

This leads to problems when libvirt scripts are used to deal with
VF mac addresses, and libvirt attempts to revoke the mac so this
host will not use it anymore.

Fix this by allowing resetting a VF administrative MAC back to zero.

Fixes: 8f7ba3ca12f6 ('net/mlx4: Add set VF mac address support')
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Reported-by: Moshe Levi <moshele@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -2282,7 +2282,7 @@ static int mlx4_en_set_vf_mac(struct net
 	struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev = en_priv->mdev;
 	u64 mac_u64 = mlx4_mac_to_u64(mac);
 
-	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac))
+	if (is_multicast_ether_addr(mac))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return mlx4_set_vf_mac(mdev->dev, en_priv->port, queue, mac_u64);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il are

queue-4.4/net-mlx4_core-allow-resetting-vf-admin-mac-to-zero.patch