From 6ddbc4cf1f4d5a3a58b4223c80881f299dae3774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Graf Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 05:33:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] igb: Indicate failure on vf reset for empty mac address Commit 5ac6f91d changed the igb driver to expose a zero (empty) mac address to the VF on reset rather than a random one. However, that behavioral change also requires igbvf driver changes which can be hard especially when we want to talk to proprietary guest OSs. Looking at the code previous to the commit in Linux that made igbvf work with empty mac addresses (8d56b6d), we can see that on reset failure the driver will try to generate a new mac address with both the old and the new code. Furthermore, ixgbe does send reset failure when it detects an empty mac address (35055928c). So I think it's safe to make igb behave the same. With this patch I can successfully run a Windows 8.1 guest with an empty mac address and an assigned igbvf device that has no mac address set by the host. If anyone is aware of a guest driver that chokes on NACK returns of VF RESET commands, please speak up. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf Tested-by: Aaron Brown Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c index 6e6544970b83..f366b3b96d03 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -6077,8 +6077,12 @@ static void igb_vf_reset_msg(struct igb_adapter *adapter, u32 vf) adapter->vf_data[vf].flags |= IGB_VF_FLAG_CTS; /* reply to reset with ack and vf mac address */ - msgbuf[0] = E1000_VF_RESET | E1000_VT_MSGTYPE_ACK; - memcpy(addr, vf_mac, ETH_ALEN); + if (!is_zero_ether_addr(vf_mac)) { + msgbuf[0] = E1000_VF_RESET | E1000_VT_MSGTYPE_ACK; + memcpy(addr, vf_mac, ETH_ALEN); + } else { + msgbuf[0] = E1000_VF_RESET | E1000_VT_MSGTYPE_NACK; + } igb_write_mbx(hw, msgbuf, 3, vf); } -- 2.45.2