This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: Mask destination mac value in ethtool steering rules to the 4.9-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: net-mlx5-mask-destination-mac-value-in-ethtool-steering-rules.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jan 12 21:37:26 CET 2017 From: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:58:35 +0200 Subject: net/mlx5: Mask destination mac value in ethtool steering rules From: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 077b1e8069b9b74477b01d28f6b83774dc19a142 ] We need to mask the destination mac value with the destination mac mask when adding steering rule via ethtool. Fixes: 1174fce8d1410 ('net/mlx5e: Support l3/l4 flow type specs in ethtool flow steering') Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ static int set_flow_attrs(u32 *match_c, } if (fs->flow_type & FLOW_MAC_EXT && !is_zero_ether_addr(fs->m_ext.h_dest)) { + mask_spec(fs->m_ext.h_dest, fs->h_ext.h_dest, ETH_ALEN); ether_addr_copy(MLX5_ADDR_OF(fte_match_set_lyr_2_4, outer_headers_c, dmac_47_16), fs->m_ext.h_dest); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/net-mlx5-mask-destination-mac-value-in-ethtool-steering-rules.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html