[PATCH v6 2/2] net/iavf: fix duplicate MAC addresses install
From: David Marchand <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-04 12:28:19
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
On port restart, all MAC addresses get pushed *twice* to the hardware,
once by the driver and once by the eth_dev_mac_restore() in ethdev.
On the other hand, MAC address filters are reset in the hardware
by the PF only when a VF reset is triggered.
Strictly speaking, the mac restore on port (re)start is unneeded,
if no VF reset happened, so we can announce to ethdev that no mac
restoration is needed via a get_restore_flags callback.
Then, move the mac restoration to the VF reset handler.
Fixes: 3d42086def30 ("net/iavf: preserve MAC address with i40e PF Linux driver")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <redacted>
---
Changes since v4:
- rebased on next-net-intel,
Changes since v4:
- moved mac restoration in iavf_post_reset_reconfig,
---
drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
index bbd1f08ff0..bec7b3b6d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c@@ -292,11 +292,12 @@ iavf_get_restore_flags(__rte_unused struct rte_eth_dev *dev, __rte_unused enum rte_eth_dev_operation op) { /* - * The unicast and multicast promiscuous settings persist across a + * The mac addresses, unicast and multicast promiscuous settings persist across a * stop/start; they are only cleared by a VF reset, which the driver * restores itself. So ethdev does not need to restore them on start. */ - return RTE_ETH_RESTORE_ALL & ~(RTE_ETH_RESTORE_PROMISC | + return RTE_ETH_RESTORE_ALL & ~(RTE_ETH_RESTORE_MAC_ADDR | + RTE_ETH_RESTORE_PROMISC | RTE_ETH_RESTORE_ALLMULTI); }
@@ -1095,15 +1096,14 @@ iavf_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) rte_intr_enable(intr_handle); } - /* Set all mac addrs */ - iavf_add_del_all_mac_addr(adapter, true); - - if (!adapter->mac_primary_set) - adapter->mac_primary_set = true; - - /* Set all multicast addresses */ - iavf_add_del_mc_addr_list(adapter, vf->mc_addrs, vf->mc_addrs_num, - true); + if (!adapter->mac_primary_set) { + if (iavf_add_del_eth_addr(adapter, &dev->data->mac_addrs[0], true, + VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_PRIMARY) != 0) + PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "failed to add primary MAC:" RTE_ETHER_ADDR_PRT_FMT, + RTE_ETHER_ADDR_BYTES(&dev->data->mac_addrs[0])); + else + adapter->mac_primary_set = true; + } rte_spinlock_init(&vf->phc_time_aq_lock);
@@ -3434,6 +3434,11 @@ iavf_post_reset_reconfig(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) int ret = 0; bool allmulti = false, allunicast = false; struct iavf_adapter *adapter = IAVF_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_ADAPTER(dev->data->dev_private); + struct iavf_info *vf = IAVF_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_VF(dev->data->dev_private); + + /* After a VF reset, all MAC addresses got flushed, restore them. */ + iavf_add_del_all_mac_addr(adapter, true); + iavf_add_del_mc_addr_list(adapter, vf->mc_addrs, vf->mc_addrs_num, true); /* Restore pre-reset unicast promiscuous and multicast promiscuous states */ if (dev->data->promiscuous)
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