netdev - [net 7/7] net/mlx5e: Initialize CEE's getpermhwaddr address buffer to 0xff

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Message-Id: <20170709124917.12852-8-saeedm@mellanox.com>
Date:   Sun,  9 Jul 2017 15:49:17 +0300
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Huy Nguyen <huyn@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: [net 7/7] net/mlx5e: Initialize CEE's getpermhwaddr address buffer to 0xff

From: Huy Nguyen <huyn@...lanox.com>

Latest change in open-lldp code uses bytes 6-11 of perm_addr buffer
as the Ethernet source address for the host TLV packet.
Since our driver does not fill these bytes, they stay at zero and
the open-lldp code ends up sending the TLV packet with zero source
address and the switch drops this packet.

The fix is to initialize these bytes to 0xff. The open-lldp code
considers 0xff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as the invalid address and falls back to
use the host's mac address as the Ethernet source address.

Fixes: 3a6a931dfb8e ("net/mlx5e: Support DCBX CEE API")
Signed-off-by: Huy Nguyen <huyn@...lanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c
index 8fa23f6a1f67..2eb54d36e16e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c
@@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ static void mlx5e_dcbnl_getpermhwaddr(struct net_device *netdev,
 	if (!perm_addr)
 		return;
 
+	memset(perm_addr, 0xff, MAX_ADDR_LEN);
+
 	mlx5_query_nic_vport_mac_address(priv->mdev, 0, perm_addr);
 }
 
-- 
2.11.0