e1000: unset IFF_UNICAST_FLT on WMware 82545EM

VMWare's e1000 implementation does not seem to support unicast filtering.
This can be observed by configuring a macvlan interface on eth0 in a VM in
VMWare Fusion 5.0.5, and trying to use that interface instead of eth0.
Tested on 3.16.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 5f6aded512f539f9a12cb692f810fd3d8e560a3f..24f3986cfae2950f582d3a5e4644c4e1b666391e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1075,7 +1075,10 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
                                  NETIF_F_HW_CSUM |
                                  NETIF_F_SG);
 
-       netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
+       /* Do not set IFF_UNICAST_FLT for VMWare's 82545EM */
+       if (hw->device_id != E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER ||
+           hw->subsystem_vendor_id != PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE)
+               netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
 
        adapter->en_mng_pt = e1000_enable_mng_pass_thru(hw);