From patchwork Tue Mar 26 15:19:01 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 231303 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6452C009A for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:22:46 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UKVhs-0008IB-Ck; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:22:36 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UKVhU-0007kt-Gu for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:22:12 +0000 Received: from bl20-143-66.dsl.telepac.pt ([2.81.143.66] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKVhU-0004eJ-BX; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:22:12 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 042/150] macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode. Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:19:01 +0000 Message-Id: <1364311249-14454-43-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1364311249-14454-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1364311249-14454-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: "David S. Miller" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7.9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vlad Yasevich commit 87ab7f6f2874f1115817e394a7ed2dea1c72549e upstream. Macvlan already supports hw address filters. Set the IFF_UNICAST_FLT so that it doesn't needlesly enter PROMISC mode when macvlans are stacked. Signed-of-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index 62ce7b8..666fc20 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_device *dev) ether_setup(dev); dev->priv_flags &= ~(IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING); + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT; dev->netdev_ops = &macvlan_netdev_ops; dev->destructor = free_netdev; dev->header_ops = &macvlan_hard_header_ops,