netdev - RE: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Mark VF as slave before exposing it to user-mode

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:04:46 +0000
From: Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>, "longli@...uxonhyperv.com"
	<longli@...uxonhyperv.com>
CC: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>, "David S.
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub
 Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Mark VF as slave before exposing it to
 user-mode

> Subject: Re: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Mark VF as slave before exposing it to user-mode
> 
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:50:50 -0700
> longli@...uxonhyperv.com wrote:
> 
> > 	list_for_each_entry(ndev_ctx, &netvsc_dev_list, list) {
> >  		ndev = hv_get_drvdata(ndev_ctx->device_ctx);
> > -		if (ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->perm_addr, ndev->perm_addr))
> {
> > -			netdev_notice(vf_netdev,
> > -				      "falling back to mac addr based
> matching\n");
> > +		if (ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->perm_addr, ndev->perm_addr)
> ||
> > +		    ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr))
> 
> This part looks like unrelated change.
> The VF mac address shouldn't change, but if it did don't look at i.

At the time of NETDEV_POST_INIT, the perm_addr is not assigned yet (last it was copied from dev_addr when device is registered).