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    virtio_net: notify MAC address change on device initialization · 9f62d221
    Laurent Vivier authored
    In virtnet_probe(), if the device doesn't provide a MAC address the
    driver assigns a random one.
    As we modify the MAC address we need to notify the device to allow it
    to update all the related information.
    
    The problem can be seen with vDPA and mlx5_vdpa driver as it doesn't
    assign a MAC address by default. The virtio_net device uses a random
    MAC address (we can see it with "ip link"), but we can't ping a net
    namespace from another one using the virtio-vdpa device because the
    new MAC address has not been provided to the hardware:
    RX packets are dropped since they don't go through the receive filters,
    TX packets go through unaffected.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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