From 4a2512cfdfe9ed2d9cdbbcced7d81362292105b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Duyck Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:56:59 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ixgbe: Assume provided MAC filter has been verified by macvlan The macvlan driver itself will validate the MAC address that is configured for a given interface. There is no need for us to verify it again. Instead we should be checking to verify that we actually allocate the filter and have not run out of resources to configure a MAC rule in our filter table. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Tested-by: Andrew Bowers Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index e47e0c470508..9416531335f7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -5406,12 +5406,16 @@ static int ixgbe_fwd_ring_up(struct net_device *vdev, if (err) goto fwd_queue_err; - if (is_valid_ether_addr(vdev->dev_addr)) - ixgbe_add_mac_filter(adapter, vdev->dev_addr, - VMDQ_P(accel->pool)); + /* ixgbe_add_mac_filter will return an index if it succeeds, so we + * need to only treat it as an error value if it is negative. + */ + err = ixgbe_add_mac_filter(adapter, vdev->dev_addr, + VMDQ_P(accel->pool)); + if (err < 0) + goto fwd_queue_err; ixgbe_macvlan_set_rx_mode(vdev, VMDQ_P(accel->pool), adapter); - return err; + return 0; fwd_queue_err: ixgbe_fwd_ring_down(vdev, accel); return err; -- 2.49.0