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qed: Fix bug in tx promiscuous mode settings
authorManish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:05:04 +0000 (10:05 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:04:05 +0000 (14:04 -0700)
commit6ae914541df2052c04e7ec50dfa8034b54f53681
tree0a070be4f99472fd88d44a3e7880ef4347344440
parent9fcfff19d89779b994674843d5c2f7eac0528b04
qed: Fix bug in tx promiscuous mode settings

[ Upstream commit 9e71a15d8b5bbce25c637f7f8833cd3f45b65646 ]

When running tx switched traffic between VNICs
created via a bridge(to which VFs are added),
adapter drops the unicast packets in tx flow due to
VNIC's ucast mac being unknown to it. But VF interfaces
being in promiscuous mode should have caused adapter
to accept all the unknown ucast packets. Later, it
was found that driver doesn't really configure tx
promiscuous mode settings to accept all unknown unicast macs.

This patch fixes tx promiscuous mode settings to accept all
unknown/unmatched unicast macs and works out the scenario.

Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_l2.c