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net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up
authorDmitri Epshtein <dima@marvell.com>
Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:44:18 +0000 (18:44 +0100)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:50:58 +0000 (08:50 -0400)
[ Upstream commit 928b6519afeb2a5e2dc61154380b545ed66c476a ]

Function eth_prepare_mac_addr_change() is called as part of MAC
address change. This function check if interface is running.
To enable change MAC address when interface is running:
IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE flag must be set to dev->priv_flags field

Fixes: c5aff18204da ("net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP
network unit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c

index e07afc673d7a83bc2049ddb0f3b1602a71f8c399..e4c079612100a9956640a5d2e064f2142239dfbf 100644 (file)
@@ -3157,7 +3157,7 @@ static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO;
        dev->hw_features |= dev->features;
        dev->vlan_features |= dev->features;
-       dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
+       dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT | IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
        dev->gso_max_segs = MVNETA_MAX_TSO_SEGS;
 
        err = register_netdev(dev);