On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:01:53AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 21:45 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > 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:
> > RX packets are dropped since they don't go through the receive filters,
> > TX packets go through unaffected.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > index 7d700f8e545a..704a05f1c279 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -3806,6 +3806,8 @@ 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 */
> > @@ -3933,6 +3935,24 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >
> > virtio_device_ready(vdev);
> >
> > + /* a random MAC address has been assigned, notify the device.
> > + * We don't fail probe if VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR is not there
> > + * because many devices work fine without getting MAC explicitly
> > + */
> > + if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC) &&
> > + 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)) {
> > + pr_debug("virtio_net: setting MAC address failed\n");
> > + rtnl_unlock();
> > + err = -EINVAL;
> > + goto free_unregister_netdev;
>
> Since the above is still dealing with device initialization, would it
> make sense moving such init step before registering the netdevice?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paolo
We can't really, device has to be ready otherwise
we can't send commands to it.
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MST
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