4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Huy Nguyen <huyn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit d968f0f2e4404152f37ed2384b4a2269dd2dae5a ]
Latest change in open-lldp code uses bytes 6-11 of perm_addr buffer
as the Ethernet source address for the host TLV packet.
Since our driver does not fill these bytes, they stay at zero and
the open-lldp code ends up sending the TLV packet with zero source
address and the switch drops this packet.
The fix is to initialize these bytes to 0xff. The open-lldp code
considers 0xff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as the invalid address and falls back to
use the host's mac address as the Ethernet source address.
Fixes: 3a6a931dfb8e ("net/mlx5e: Support DCBX CEE API")
Signed-off-by: Huy Nguyen <huyn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_dcbnl.c
@@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ static void mlx5e_dcbnl_getpermhwaddr(st
if (!perm_addr)
return;
+ memset(perm_addr, 0xff, MAX_ADDR_LEN);
+
mlx5_query_nic_vport_mac_address(priv->mdev, 0, perm_addr);
}