This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
be2net: restore properly promisc mode after queues reconfiguration
to the 4.14-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:
be2net-restore-properly-promisc-mode-after-queues-reconfiguration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Sun Jan 28 17:35:08 CET 2018
From: Ivan Vecera <cera@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:23:50 +0100
Subject: be2net: restore properly promisc mode after queues reconfiguration
From: Ivan Vecera <cera@xxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 52acf06451930eb4cefabd5ecea56e2d46c32f76 ]
The commit 622190669403 ("be2net: Request RSS capability of Rx interface
depending on number of Rx rings") modified be_update_queues() so the
IFACE (HW representation of the netdevice) is destroyed and then
re-created. This causes a regression because potential promiscuous mode
is not restored properly during be_open() because the driver thinks
that the HW has promiscuous mode already enabled.
Note that Lancer is not affected by this bug because RX-filter flags are
disabled during be_close() for this chipset.
Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 622190669403 ("be2net: Request RSS capability of Rx interface depending on number of Rx rings")
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
@@ -4634,6 +4634,15 @@ int be_update_queues(struct be_adapter *
be_schedule_worker(adapter);
+ /*
+ * The IF was destroyed and re-created. We need to clear
+ * all promiscuous flags valid for the destroyed IF.
+ * Without this promisc mode is not restored during
+ * be_open() because the driver thinks that it is
+ * already enabled in HW.
+ */
+ adapter->if_flags &= ~BE_IF_FLAGS_ALL_PROMISCUOUS;
+
if (netif_running(netdev))
status = be_open(netdev);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cera@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/be2net-restore-properly-promisc-mode-after-queues-reconfiguration.patch