From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758081Ab3CYBjc (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:39:32 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33765 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755419Ab3CYBPB (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:15:01 -0400 Message-Id: <20130325010525.328988649@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:05:34 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Vlad Yasevich , "David S. Miller" Subject: [ 010/104] macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20130325010524.240972766@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:f137:78a:b654:affb X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vlad Yasevich [ 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_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,