This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
macvlan: Don't propagate promisc change to lower dev in passthru
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
macvlan-don-t-propagate-promisc-change-to-lower-dev-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0f25ed5e7730595969da5aa923e4d35f96b5df29
Author: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 14 18:59:15 2023 +0100
macvlan: Don't propagate promisc change to lower dev in passthru
[ Upstream commit 7e1caeace0418381f36b3aa8403dfd82fc57fc53 ]
Macvlan device in passthru mode sets its lower device promiscuous mode
according to its MACVLAN_FLAG_NOPROMISC flag instead of synchronizing it to
its own promiscuity setting. However, macvlan_change_rx_flags() function
doesn't check the mode before propagating such changes to the lower device
which can cause net_device->promiscuity counter overflow as illustrated by
reproduction example [0] and resulting dmesg log [1]. Fix the issue by
first verifying the mode in macvlan_change_rx_flags() function before
propagating promiscuous mode change to the lower device.
[0]:
ip link add macvlan1 link enp8s0f0 type macvlan mode passthru
ip link set macvlan1 promisc on
ip l set dev macvlan1 up
ip link set macvlan1 promisc off
ip l set dev macvlan1 down
ip l set dev macvlan1 up
[1]:
[ 5156.281724] macvlan1: entered promiscuous mode
[ 5156.285467] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0f0: entered promiscuous mode
[ 5156.287639] macvlan1: left promiscuous mode
[ 5156.288339] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0f0: left promiscuous mode
[ 5156.290907] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0f0: entered promiscuous mode
[ 5156.317197] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0f0: promiscuity touches roof, set promiscuity failed. promiscuity feature of device might be broken.
Fixes: efdbd2b30caa ("macvlan: Propagate promiscuity setting to lower devices.")
Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman <gal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231114175915.1649154-1-vladbu@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 545d181453504..46398b06676c0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ static void macvlan_change_rx_flags(struct net_device *dev, int change)
if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
if (change & IFF_ALLMULTI)
dev_set_allmulti(lowerdev, dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI ? 1 : -1);
- if (change & IFF_PROMISC)
+ if (!macvlan_passthru(vlan->port) && change & IFF_PROMISC)
dev_set_promiscuity(lowerdev,
dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC ? 1 : -1);
