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macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode.
authorVlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:21:48 +0000 (10:21 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:10:58 +0000 (13:10 -0700)
[ Upstream commit 87ab7f6f2874f1115817e394a7ed2dea1c72549e ]

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 <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/macvlan.c

index d3fb97d97cbcb61f68deda7c3009a83393515656..e5cb723df7f9e066a5cef8a7128ac2a0d8ae2622 100644 (file)
@@ -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,