4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Emil Tantilov <[email protected]> [ 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 <[email protected]> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- 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;
