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    net/mlx4_core: Allow resetting VF admin mac to zero · 6e522422
    Jack Morgenstein authored
    The VF administrative mac addresses (stored in the PF driver) are
    initialized to zero when the PF driver starts up.
    
    These addresses may be modified in the PF driver through ndo calls
    initiated by iproute2 or libvirt.
    
    While we allow the PF/host to change the VF admin mac address from zero
    to a valid unicast mac, we do not allow restoring the VF admin mac to
    zero. We currently only allow changing this mac to a different unicast mac.
    
    This leads to problems when libvirt scripts are used to deal with
    VF mac addresses, and libvirt attempts to revoke the mac so this
    host will not use it anymore.
    
    Fix this by allowing resetting a VF administrative MAC back to zero.
    
    Fixes: 8f7ba3ca ('net/mlx4: Add set VF mac address support')
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
    Reported-by: default avatarMoshe Levi <moshele@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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