This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode.
to the 3.8-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-set-iff_unicast_flt-flag-to-prevent-unnecessary-promisc-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 055ac17d92eee5e96bb207f2a4d7da92ac64a690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:21:48 +0000
Subject: macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode.
From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 87ab7f6f2874f1115817e394a7ed2dea1c72549e ]
Macvlan already supports hw address filters. Set the IFF_UNICAST_FLT
so that it doesn't needlesly enter PROMISC mode when macvlans are
stacked.
Signed-of-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_dev
ether_setup(dev);
dev->priv_flags &= ~(IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING);
+ dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
dev->netdev_ops = &macvlan_netdev_ops;
dev->destructor = free_netdev;
dev->header_ops = &macvlan_hard_header_ops,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/macvlan-set-iff_unicast_flt-flag-to-prevent-unnecessary-promisc-mode.patch
queue-3.8/team-unsyc-the-devices-addresses-when-port-is-removed.patch
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