[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net v6] ice: Fix VSIs unable to share unicast MAC

[Tony Nguyen]

On 7/20/2022 6:11 AM, Jedrzej Jagielski wrote:
> From: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan at intel.com>
> 
> The driver currently does not allow two VSIs in the same PF domain
> to have the same unicast MAC address. This is incorrect in the sense
> that a policy decision is being made in the driver when it must be
> left to the user. This approach was causing issues when rebooting
> the system with VFs spawned not being able to change their MAC addresses.
> Such errors were present in dmesg:
> 
> [ 7921.068237] ice 0000:b6:00.2 ens2f2: Unicast MAC 6a:0d:e4:70:ca:d1 already
> exists on this PF. Preventing setting VF 7 unicast MAC address to 6a:0d:e4:70:ca:d1
> 
> Fix that by removing this restriction. Doing this also allows
> us to remove some additional code that's checking if a unicast MAC
> filter already exists.
> 
> Fixes: 47ebc7b ("ice: Check if unicast MAC exists before setting VF MAC")

Not enough chars...

Commit: af88e1d3506b ("ice: Fix VSIs unable to share unicast MAC")
         Fixes tag: Fixes: 47ebc7b ("ice: Check if unicast MAC exists 
before setting VF MAC")
         Has these problem(s):
                 - Target SHA1 does not exist


> Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Dziedziuch <sylwesterx.dziedziuch at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagielski at intel.com>