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authorIvan Vecera <cera@cera.cz>2018-01-19 20:23:50 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-01-31 12:55:55 +0100
commit1711ba166e5f7148bc41b5e24f7f282ffc055515 (patch)
treea5dd881b632f00d527511f65f0b41de7e86b03b8
parent00f9e47c6f9d9d25e1bf9cd5f58652d74e36d567 (diff)
be2net: restore properly promisc mode after queues reconfiguration
[ Upstream commit 52acf06451930eb4cefabd5ecea56e2d46c32f76 ] The commit 622190669403 ("be2net: Request RSS capability of Rx interface depending on number of Rx rings") modified be_update_queues() so the IFACE (HW representation of the netdevice) is destroyed and then re-created. This causes a regression because potential promiscuous mode is not restored properly during be_open() because the driver thinks that the HW has promiscuous mode already enabled. Note that Lancer is not affected by this bug because RX-filter flags are disabled during be_close() for this chipset. Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@broadcom.com> Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com> Cc: Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna@broadcom.com> Cc: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com> Fixes: 622190669403 ("be2net: Request RSS capability of Rx interface depending on number of Rx rings") Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
index 1644896568c4..b2eeecb26939 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
@@ -4733,6 +4733,15 @@ int be_update_queues(struct be_adapter *adapter)
be_schedule_worker(adapter);
+ /*
+ * The IF was destroyed and re-created. We need to clear
+ * all promiscuous flags valid for the destroyed IF.
+ * Without this promisc mode is not restored during
+ * be_open() because the driver thinks that it is
+ * already enabled in HW.
+ */
+ adapter->if_flags &= ~BE_IF_FLAGS_ALL_PROMISCUOUS;
+
if (netif_running(netdev))
status = be_open(netdev);