In virtnet_probe(), if the device doesn't provide a MAC address the
driver assigns a random one.
As we modify the MAC address we need to notify the device to allow it
to update all the related information.
The problem can be seen with vDPA and mlx5_vdpa driver as it doesn't
assign a MAC address by default. The virtio_net device uses a random
MAC address (we can see it with "ip link"), but we can't ping a net
namespace from another one using the virtio-vdpa device because the
new MAC address has not been provided to the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 7723b2a49d8e..25511a86590e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -3800,6 +3800,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
eth_hw_addr_set(dev, addr);
} else {
eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
+ dev_info(&vdev->dev, "Assigned random MAC address %pM\n",
+ dev->dev_addr);
}
/* Set up our device-specific information */
@@ -3956,6 +3958,18 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
pr_debug("virtnet: registered device %s with %d RX and TX vq's\n",
dev->name, max_queue_pairs);
+ /* a random MAC address has been assigned, notify the device */
+ if (dev->addr_assign_type == NET_ADDR_RANDOM &&
+ virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR)) {
+ struct scatterlist sg;
+
+ sg_init_one(&sg, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
+ if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC,
+ VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC_ADDR_SET, &sg)) {
+ dev_warn(&vdev->dev, "Failed to update MAC address.\n");
+ }
+ }
+
return 0;
free_unregister_netdev:
--
2.39.0
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