From: "David Harton (dharton)" <dharton@cisco.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.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 12:51:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0861ab7f035449daa231df4c00d049f@XCH-RCD-016.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad0ebe30-a8db-1e5e-1554-efb86fbf999f@intel.com>
Hi Jingjing/Beilei,
A kind reminder to review the patch and the discussion between
Ferruh and myself.
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 12:52 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) [this message]
2017-09-08 12:56 ` Ferruh Yigit
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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