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, Emil Tantilov , Andrew Bowers , Jeff Kirsher , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.17 166/336] ixgbevf: fix MAC address changes through ixgbevf_set_mac() Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 18:48:21 +0200 Message-Id: <20180801165035.465404282@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180801165028.930831994@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180801165028.930831994@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Emil Tantilov [ 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 --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c @@ -4187,6 +4187,7 @@ static int ixgbevf_set_mac(struct net_de 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;