This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ixgbe: limit VF access to network traffic
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ixgbe-limit-vf-access-to-network-traffic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 96cc637235892a102fb829218adac048bd730ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:33:05 +0000
Subject: ixgbe: limit VF access to network traffic
From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
commit 96cc637235892a102fb829218adac048bd730ab7 upstream.
This change fixes VM pool allocation issues based on MAC address filtering,
as well as limits the scope of VF access to promiscuous mode.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 3 +++
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c
@@ -1292,6 +1292,9 @@ s32 ixgbe_init_rx_addrs_generic(struct i
hw_dbg(hw, " New MAC Addr =%pM\n", hw->mac.addr);
hw->mac.ops.set_rar(hw, 0, hw->mac.addr, 0, IXGBE_RAH_AV);
+
+ /* clear VMDq pool/queue selection for RAR 0 */
+ hw->mac.ops.clear_vmdq(hw, 0, IXGBE_CLEAR_VMDQ_ALL);
}
hw->addr_ctrl.overflow_promisc = 0;
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
@@ -110,12 +110,10 @@ static int ixgbe_set_vf_vlan(struct ixgb
return adapter->hw.mac.ops.set_vfta(&adapter->hw, vid, vf, (bool)add);
}
-
static void ixgbe_set_vmolr(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u32 vf, bool aupe)
{
u32 vmolr = IXGBE_READ_REG(hw, IXGBE_VMOLR(vf));
vmolr |= (IXGBE_VMOLR_ROMPE |
- IXGBE_VMOLR_ROPE |
IXGBE_VMOLR_BAM);
if (aupe)
vmolr |= IXGBE_VMOLR_AUPE;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/ixgbe-limit-vf-access-to-network-traffic.patch
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