On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:50:50 -0700 longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > list_for_each_entry(ndev_ctx, &netvsc_dev_list, list) { > ndev = hv_get_drvdata(ndev_ctx->device_ctx); > - if (ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->perm_addr, ndev->perm_addr)) { > - netdev_notice(vf_netdev, > - "falling back to mac addr based matching\n"); > + if (ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->perm_addr, ndev->perm_addr) || > + ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr)) This part looks like unrelated change. The VF mac address shouldn't change, but if it did don't look at i.