ixgbe: Extend trust to allow guest to set unicast address
authorchas williams <3chas3@gmail.com>
Tue, 5 Jan 2016 22:30:39 +0000 (17:30 -0500)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Mon, 4 Apr 2016 19:54:58 +0000 (12:54 -0700)
When running certain routing protocols like VRRP, VF guests need the
ability to set the unicast address of the interface.  Extend the new ndo
trust feature to let the hypervisor trust a guest to set/update its own
unicast address.

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c

index 8025a3f93598069c7b03c34cf00463cf33111117..80e47dbc530bea09964708dc33585b9a7dcd6ac8 100644 (file)
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ static int ixgbe_set_vf_mac_addr(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
                return -1;
        }
 
-       if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac &&
+       if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac && !adapter->vfinfo[vf].trusted &&
            !ether_addr_equal(adapter->vfinfo[vf].vf_mac_addresses, new_mac)) {
                e_warn(drv,
                       "VF %d attempted to override administratively set MAC address\n"