From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: "David Harton (dharton)" <dharton@cisco.com>,
"jingjing.wu@intel.com" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
"beilei.xing@intel.com" <beilei.xing@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] i40e: fix i40e_validate_mac_addr to permit multicast addresses
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 13:56:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a650d900-cc54-9a3a-0f8b-84424f70ad72@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0861ab7f035449daa231df4c00d049f@XCH-RCD-016.cisco.com>
On 9/8/2017 1:51 PM, David Harton (dharton) wrote:
> Hi Jingjing/Beilei,
>
> A kind reminder to review the patch and the discussion between
> Ferruh and myself.
Hi David,
To clarify, your reply answered my concern, so I am OK, still I believe
this should be reviewed by driver maintainer.
Thanks,
ferruh
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Harton (dharton)
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com]
>>>
>>> On 8/22/2017 11:21 PM, David Harton wrote:
>>>> The i40e maintains a single MAC filter table for both unicast and
>>>> multicast addresses. The i40e_validate_mac_addr function was
>>>> preventing multicast addresses from being added to the table via
>>>> i40evf_add_mac_addr. Fixed the issue by removing the multicast
>>>> address check in i40e_validate_mac_addr.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Harton <dharton@cisco.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_common.c | 12 +++++-------
>>>> drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 3 ++-
>>>> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_common.c
>>>> b/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_common.c
>>>> index 900d379..9779854 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_common.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_common.c
>>>> @@ -969,10 +969,10 @@ struct i40e_rx_ptype_decoded
>>>> i40e_ptype_lookup[] = {
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /**
>>>> - * i40e_validate_mac_addr - Validate unicast MAC address
>>>> + * i40e_validate_mac_addr - Validate MAC address
>>>> * @mac_addr: pointer to MAC address
>>>> *
>>>> - * Tests a MAC address to ensure it is a valid Individual Address
>>>> + * Tests a MAC address to ensure it is a valid Address
>>>> **/
>>>> enum i40e_status_code i40e_validate_mac_addr(u8 *mac_addr) { @@
>>>> -980,13 +980,11 @@ enum i40e_status_code i40e_validate_mac_addr(u8
>>>> *mac_addr)
>>>>
>>>> DEBUGFUNC("i40e_validate_mac_addr");
>>>>
>>>> - /* Broadcast addresses ARE multicast addresses
>>>> - * Make sure it is not a multicast address
>>>> + /*
>>>> * Reject the zero address
>>>> */
>>>> - if (I40E_IS_MULTICAST(mac_addr) ||
>>>> - (mac_addr[0] == 0 && mac_addr[1] == 0 && mac_addr[2] == 0 &&
>>>> - mac_addr[3] == 0 && mac_addr[4] == 0 && mac_addr[5] == 0))
>>>> + if (mac_addr[0] == 0 && mac_addr[1] == 0 && mac_addr[2] == 0 &&
>>>> + mac_addr[3] == 0 && mac_addr[4] == 0 && mac_addr[5] == 0)
>>>> status = I40E_ERR_INVALID_MAC_ADDR;
>>>>
>>>> return status;
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
>>>> b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c index 5f26e24..00b6082 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
>>>> @@ -1199,7 +1199,8 @@ eth_i40e_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>>>>
>>>> /* Get and check the mac address */
>>>> i40e_get_mac_addr(hw, hw->mac.addr);
>>>> - if (i40e_validate_mac_addr(hw->mac.addr) != I40E_SUCCESS) {
>>>> + if (i40e_validate_mac_addr(hw->mac.addr) != I40E_SUCCESS ||
>>>> + I40E_IS_MULTICAST(hw->mac.addr)) {
>>>
>>> As far as I can see this is to set PF permanent mac address during
>>> init(),
>>> i40e_macaddr_add() can be used to set multicast address filters.
>>> Why do you want to set multicast address as mac permanent address?
>>>
>>> Any chance that you want to update i40evf_add_mac_addr() to let
>>> multicast addresses?
>>
>> No. I'm preserving the existing behavior here. The previous call used to
>> ensure that the permanent mac address here was both non-null and not a
>> multi-cast address.
>>
>> Since I removed the multi cast check from i40e_validate_mac_addr() I added
>> the multicast check here. If "not valid" or a multicast address fail.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>>
>>>
>>>> PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "mac address is not valid");
>>>> ret = -EIO;
>>>> goto err_get_mac_addr;
>>>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-22 22:21 David Harton
2017-08-31 15:53 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-31 16:04 ` David Harton (dharton)
2017-09-08 12:51 ` David Harton (dharton)
2017-09-08 12:56 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2017-09-11 5:41 ` Xing, Beilei
2017-09-11 17:22 ` David Harton (dharton)
2017-09-12 3:00 ` Xing, Beilei
2017-09-12 13:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] i40e: fix i40evf_add_mac_addr " David Harton
2017-09-13 2:20 ` Xing, Beilei
2017-09-13 2:38 ` David Harton (dharton)
2017-09-13 2:43 ` Xing, Beilei
2017-09-13 3:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " David Harton
2017-09-13 3:42 ` Xing, Beilei
2017-09-14 18:55 ` Ferruh Yigit
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