net/mlx4_en: Fix errors in MAC address changing when port is down
authorShani Michaelli <shanim@mellanox.com>
Wed, 14 May 2014 09:15:12 +0000 (12:15 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 14 May 2014 19:40:33 +0000 (15:40 -0400)
This patch fix an issue that happen when changing the MAC address when
the port is down, described as follows:
1. Set the port down.
2. Change the MAC address - mlx4_en_set_mac() will change dev->dev_addr.
3. Set the port up - will result in mlx4_en_do_uc_filter that will
   remove the prev_mac entry from the mac_hash db.
4. Changing the MAC address again will eventually trigger the call to
   mlx4_en_replace_mac() in order to replace prev_mac with dev_addr but
   the prev_mac entry is already not exist in the mac_hash db therefore
   the operation fails.

The fix is to set the prev_mac with the new MAC address so in step 3
above, after setting the port up mlx4_en_get_qp() is updating the
mac_hash with the entry of dev_addr which is equal to prev_mac.
Therefore in step 4, when calling mlx4_en_replace_mac, the entry related
to prev_mac exist in mac_hash and the replace operation succeed.

Reviewed-by: Eyal Perry <eyalpe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Shani Michaeli <shanim@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c

index 79c6f467d17e80a450a01992e43f6383fe80df85..c0247945d83520da3cf1d7a321727c083c633993 100644 (file)
@@ -770,11 +770,12 @@ static int mlx4_en_do_set_mac(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
                                          priv->dev->dev_addr, priv->prev_mac);
                if (err)
                        en_err(priv, "Failed changing HW MAC address\n");
-               memcpy(priv->prev_mac, priv->dev->dev_addr,
-                      sizeof(priv->prev_mac));
        } else
                en_dbg(HW, priv, "Port is down while registering mac, exiting...\n");
 
+       memcpy(priv->prev_mac, priv->dev->dev_addr,
+              sizeof(priv->prev_mac));
+
        return err;
 }