Commit 465fc643 authored by Emil Tantilov's avatar Emil Tantilov Committed by Jeff Kirsher

ixgbevf: fix spoofed packets with random MAC

If ixgbevf is loaded while the corresponding PF interface is down
and the driver assigns a random MAC address, that address can be
overwritten with the value of hw->mac.perm_addr, which would be 0 at
that point.

To avoid this case we init hw->mac.perm_addr to the randomly generated
address and do not set it unless we receive ACK from ixgbe.
Reported-by: default avatarJohn Greene <jogreene@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEmil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKrishneil Singh <Krishneil.k.singh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
parent 91a76baa
......@@ -2664,6 +2664,7 @@ static int ixgbevf_sw_init(struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter)
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Assigning random MAC address\n");
eth_hw_addr_random(netdev);
ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.addr, netdev->dev_addr);
ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.perm_addr, netdev->dev_addr);
}
/* Enable dynamic interrupt throttling rates */
......
......@@ -117,7 +117,9 @@ static s32 ixgbevf_reset_hw_vf(struct ixgbe_hw *hw)
msgbuf[0] != (IXGBE_VF_RESET | IXGBE_VT_MSGTYPE_NACK))
return IXGBE_ERR_INVALID_MAC_ADDR;
ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.perm_addr, addr);
if (msgbuf[0] == (IXGBE_VF_RESET | IXGBE_VT_MSGTYPE_ACK))
ether_addr_copy(hw->mac.perm_addr, addr);
hw->mac.mc_filter_type = msgbuf[IXGBE_VF_MC_TYPE_WORD];
return 0;
......
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