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| author | Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> | 2013-03-07 10:21:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-03-20 13:05:01 -0700 |
| commit | e86429f5b4367734a4df8ffa46212d64934c310c (patch) | |
| tree | 33673c48300fb22b64b13f7ac21d6b829b1df85a /drivers | |
| parent | 094b503a07c1b2f2c61505c548c4d55c0c297d02 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e86429f5b4367734a4df8ffa46212d64934c310c.tar.gz lwn-e86429f5b4367734a4df8ffa46212d64934c310c.zip | |
macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode.
[ 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index 025367a94add..956a5ed87901 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ 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, |