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    ice: fix lost multicast packets in promisc mode · 43fbca02
    Jesse Brandeburg authored
    There was a problem reported to us where the addition of a VF with an IPv6
    address ending with a particular sequence would cause the parent device on
    the PF to no longer be able to respond to neighbor discovery packets.
    
    In this case, we had an ovs-bridge device living on top of a VLAN, which
    was on top of a PF, and it would not be able to talk anymore (the neighbor
    entry would expire and couldn't be restored).
    
    The root cause of the issue is that if the PF is asked to be in IFF_PROMISC
    mode (promiscuous mode) and it had an ipv6 address that needed the
    33:33:ff:00:00:04 multicast address to work, then when the VF was added
    with the need for the same multicast address, the VF would steal all the
    traffic destined for that address.
    
    The ice driver didn't auto-subscribe a request of IFF_PROMISC to the
    "multicast replication from other port's traffic" meaning that it won't get
    for instance, packets with an exact destination in the VF, as above.
    
    The VF's IPv6 address, which adds a "perfect filter" for 33:33:ff:00:00:04,
    results in no packets for that multicast address making it to the PF (which
    is in promisc but NOT "multicast replication").
    
    The fix is to enable "multicast promiscuous" whenever the driver is asked
    to enable IFF_PROMISC, and make sure to disable it when appropriate.
    
    Fixes: e94d4478 ("ice: Implement filter sync, NDO operations and bump version")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarRafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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