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| author | Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> | 2013-06-04 05:13:28 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-04 12:58:24 -0700 |
| commit | ef96f7d46ad86625237da8a35e812bdf7896e640 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ffd54f31569c2b74dcb471df51cf3c9188798a1 | |
| parent | 5efe5355f22fb9b7bb64d19809c0a75805e0ccb8 (diff) | |
net/mlx4_en: Handle unassigned VF MAC address correctly
When a VF sense they didn't get MAC address, use random one. This will
address the case of administrator not assigning MAC to the VF through
the PF OS APIs and keep udev happy.
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c index 810aab01c3c..89c47ea84b5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -2119,6 +2119,7 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev, int port, struct mlx4_en_priv *priv; int i; int err; + u64 mac_u64; dev = alloc_etherdev_mqs(sizeof(struct mlx4_en_priv), MAX_TX_RINGS, MAX_RX_RINGS); @@ -2192,10 +2193,17 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev, int port, dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN; mlx4_en_u64_to_mac(dev->dev_addr, mdev->dev->caps.def_mac[priv->port]); if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) { - en_err(priv, "Port: %d, invalid mac burned: %pM, quiting\n", - priv->port, dev->dev_addr); - err = -EINVAL; - goto out; + if (mlx4_is_slave(priv->mdev->dev)) { + eth_hw_addr_random(dev); + en_warn(priv, "Assigned random MAC address %pM\n", dev->dev_addr); + mac_u64 = mlx4_en_mac_to_u64(dev->dev_addr); + mdev->dev->caps.def_mac[priv->port] = mac_u64; + } else { + en_err(priv, "Port: %d, invalid mac burned: %pM, quiting\n", + priv->port, dev->dev_addr); + err = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } } memcpy(priv->prev_mac, dev->dev_addr, sizeof(priv->prev_mac)); |