The virtio_net driver never sends the multicast address list to
the host. This is because send command takes a pointer to scatter list
to send but only inserts that one entry into the outgoing scatter list.
This bug has been there since:
commit f565a7c259d71cc186753653d978c646d2354b36
Author: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@hp.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 09:02:45 2009 +0000
virtio_net: Add a MAC filter table
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c 2013-12-09 16:12:03.897891975 -0800
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c 2013-12-09 16:12:36.353164803 -0800
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct
sg_init_one(&hdr, &ctrl, sizeof(ctrl));
sgs[out_num++] = &hdr;
- if (out)
+ for (; out; out = sg_next(out))
sgs[out_num++] = out;
if (in)
sgs[out_num + in_num++] = in;
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