From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Subject: [ 42/48] macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode. Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:08:50 -0700 Message-Id: <20130318210813.221690642@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130318210810.247845918@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130318210810.247845918@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vlad Yasevich [ Upstream commit 87ab7f6f2874f1115817e394a7ed2dea1c72549e ] Macvlan already supports hw address filters. Set the IFF_UNICAST_FLT so that it doesn't needlesly enter PROMISC mode when macvlans are stacked. Signed-of-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_dev ether_setup(dev); dev->priv_flags &= ~(IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING); + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT; dev->netdev_ops = &macvlan_netdev_ops; dev->destructor = free_netdev; dev->header_ops = &macvlan_hard_header_ops,