From: chas williams <3ch...@gmail.com>
When running certain routing protocols like VRRP, VF guests need the
ability to set the unicast address of the interface. Extend the new ndo
trust feature to let the hypervisor trust a guest to set/update its own
unicast address.
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <3ch...@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schm...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
index 8025a3f..80e47db 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ static int ixgbe_set_vf_mac_addr(struct ixgbe_adapter
*adapter,
return -1;
}
- if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac &&
+ if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac && !adapter->vfinfo[vf].trusted &&
!ether_addr_equal(adapter->vfinfo[vf].vf_mac_addresses, new_mac)) {
e_warn(drv,
"VF %d attempted to override administratively set MAC
address\n"
--
2.5.5
