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authorchas williams <3chas3@gmail.com>2016-01-05 17:30:39 -0500
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2016-04-04 12:54:58 -0700
commit1d96cf9822bf801b1a93a0817e45dd02af5ac0e6 (patch)
tree53fc352ae154e303d82330e86d44291f01d662b2 /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
parentixgbevf: use bit operations for setting and checking resets (diff)
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ixgbe: Extend trust to allow guest to set unicast address
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
index 8025a3f93598..80e47dbc530b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
@@ -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"