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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:24:47 +0800
From:	Amos Kong <akong@...hat.com>
To:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, mst@...hat.com,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] virtio-net: introduce a new control to set macaddr

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 02:20:39PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 01:57:01 PM akong@...hat.com wrote:
> > From: Amos Kong <akong@...hat.com>
> > 
> > Currently we write MAC address to pci config space byte by byte,
> > this means that we have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.
> > This patch introduced a new control command to set MAC address
> > in one time.
> > 
> > VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR is a new feature bit for compatibility.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/virtio_net.c        | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> >  include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h |  8 +++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > index 395ab4f..c8901b6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -802,16 +802,25 @@ static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device
> > *dev, void *p) struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
> >  	struct virtio_device *vdev = vi->vdev;
> >  	int ret;
> > +	struct sockaddr *addr = p;
> > +	struct scatterlist sg;
> > 
> > -	ret = eth_mac_addr(dev, p);
> > -	if (ret)
> > -		return ret;
> > -
> > -	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC))
> > +	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR)) {
> > +		sg_init_one(&sg, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
> > +		if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC,
> > +					  VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC_ADDR_SET,
> > +					  &sg, 1, 0)) {
> > +			dev_warn(&vdev->dev,
> > +				 "Failed to set mac address by vq command.\n");
> > +			return -EINVAL;
> > +		}
> > +	} else if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC)) {
> >  		vdev->config->set(vdev, offsetof(struct virtio_net_config, mac),
> > -		                  dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
> > +				  addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
> > +	}
> > +	ret = eth_mac_addr(dev, p);
> > 
> 
> The you will the validity check in eth_mac_addr which may result a wrong mac 
> address to be set in the hardware (or is there any check in qemu) and a 
> inconsistency bettween what kernel assumes and qemu has.
> 
> You can take a look at netvsc driver that calls eth_mac_addr() first and 
> restore the software mac address when fail to enforce it to hardware.

Thanks for the catching, I will move eth_mac_addr() back to above,
just restore addr if fail to send command.

I will also use DEFINE_PROP_BIT to fix migration issue, thanks.
 
> Thanks
> > -	return 0;
> > +	return ret;
> >  }


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