failover relies on the MAC address to pair the primary and the standby
devices:
"[...] the hypervisor needs to enable VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY
feature on the virtio-net interface and assign the same MAC address
to both virtio-net and VF interfaces."
Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst
This patch disables the STANDBY feature if the MAC address is not
provided by the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU);
}
+ if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY) &&
+ !virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC)) {
+ dev_warn(&vdev->dev, "device advertises feature VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY but not VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC, disabling standby");
+ __virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY);
+ }
+
return 0;
}