From: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 15:18:52 +0100
Subject: i40e: fix mac filter delete when setting mac address
Patch-mainline: v4.20
Git-commit: 158daed16efb1170694e420ae06ba8ba954d82e5
References: bsc#1111981 FATE#326312 FATE#326313
A previous commit moved the ether_addr_copy() in i40e_set_mac() before
the mac filter del/add to avoid a race. However it wasn't taken into
account that this alters the mac address being handed to
i40e_del_mac_filter().
Also changed i40e_add_mac_filter() to operate on netdev->dev_addr,
hopefully that makes the code easier to read.
Fixes: 458867b2ca0c ("i40e: don't remove netdev->dev_addr when syncing uc list")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -1566,17 +1566,17 @@ static int i40e_set_mac(struct net_devic
netdev_info(netdev, "set new mac address %pM\n", addr->sa_data);
/* Copy the address first, so that we avoid a possible race with
- * .set_rx_mode(). If we copy after changing the address in the filter
- * list, we might open ourselves to a narrow race window where
- * .set_rx_mode could delete our dev_addr filter and prevent traffic
- * from passing.
+ * .set_rx_mode().
+ * - Remove old address from MAC filter
+ * - Copy new address
+ * - Add new address to MAC filter
*/
- ether_addr_copy(netdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
-
spin_lock_bh(&vsi->mac_filter_hash_lock);
i40e_del_mac_filter(vsi, netdev->dev_addr);
- i40e_add_mac_filter(vsi, addr->sa_data);
+ ether_addr_copy(netdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
+ i40e_add_mac_filter(vsi, netdev->dev_addr);
spin_unlock_bh(&vsi->mac_filter_hash_lock);
+
if (vsi->type == I40E_VSI_MAIN) {
i40e_status ret;