netdev - [PATCH] igb: Indicate failure on vf reset for empty mac address

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Date:	Wed,  8 Oct 2014 23:23:27 +0200
From:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
To:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...nic.de>,
	Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>,
	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	John Ronciak <john.ronciak@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] igb: Indicate failure on vf reset for empty mac address

Commit 5ac6f91d changed the igb driver to expose a zero (empty) mac
address to the VF on reset rather than a random one.

However, that behavioral change also requires igbvf driver changes
which can be hard especially when we want to talk to proprietary
guest OSs.

Looking at the code previous to the commit in Linux that made igbvf
work with empty mac addresses (8d56b6d), we can see that on reset
failure the driver will try to generate a new mac address with both
the old and the new code.

Furthermore, ixgbe does send reset failure when it detects an empty
mac address (35055928c).

So I think it's safe to make igb behave the same. With this patch I
can successfully run a Windows 8.1 guest with an empty mac address
and an assigned igbvf device that has no mac address set by the host.

If anyone is aware of a guest driver that chokes on NACK returns of
VF RESET commands, please speak up.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index cb14bbd..e8c53b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -6024,8 +6024,12 @@ static void igb_vf_reset_msg(struct igb_adapter *adapter, u32 vf)
 	adapter->vf_data[vf].flags |= IGB_VF_FLAG_CTS;

 	/* reply to reset with ack and vf mac address */
-	msgbuf[0] = E1000_VF_RESET | E1000_VT_MSGTYPE_ACK;
-	memcpy(addr, vf_mac, ETH_ALEN);
+	if (!is_zero_ether_addr(vf_mac)) {
+		msgbuf[0] = E1000_VF_RESET | E1000_VT_MSGTYPE_ACK;
+		memcpy(addr, vf_mac, ETH_ALEN);
+	} else {
+		msgbuf[0] = E1000_VF_RESET | E1000_VT_MSGTYPE_NACK;
+	}
 	igb_write_mbx(hw, msgbuf, 3, vf);
 }

-- 
1.8.1.4

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