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| author | Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com> | 2020-01-07 11:30:33 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-01-08 13:09:18 -0800 |
| commit | 7c7b58d46b7636ff3cfb01cc633dda852fda70c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d8c7212dd2b994ddfc690cc04e4245f1ea9794a /net/ncsi | |
| parent | e102774588b3ac0d221ed2d03a5153e056f1354f (diff) | |
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net/ncsi: Send device address as source address
After receiving device mac address from device, send this as
a source address for further commands instead of broadcast
address.
This will help in multi host NIC cards.
Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ncsi')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c index 0187e65176c0..ba9ae482141b 100644 --- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c +++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c @@ -369,7 +369,15 @@ int ncsi_xmit_cmd(struct ncsi_cmd_arg *nca) eh = skb_push(nr->cmd, sizeof(*eh)); eh->h_proto = htons(ETH_P_NCSI); eth_broadcast_addr(eh->h_dest); - eth_broadcast_addr(eh->h_source); + + /* If mac address received from device then use it for + * source address as unicast address else use broadcast + * address as source address + */ + if (nca->ndp->gma_flag == 1) + memcpy(eh->h_source, nca->ndp->ndev.dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN); + else + eth_broadcast_addr(eh->h_source); /* Start the timer for the request that might not have * corresponding response. Given NCSI is an internal |