sfc: Change VF mac via PF as first preference if available.
Changing a VF's mac address through the VF (rather than via the PF) fails with EPERM because the latter part of efx_ef10_set_mac_address attempts to change the vport mac address list as the VF. Even with this fixed it still fails with EBUSY because the vadaptor is still assigned on the VF - the vadaptor reassignment must be within a section where the VF has torn down its state. A major reason this has broken is because we have two functions that ostensibly do the same thing - have a PF and VF cooperate to change a VF mac address. Rather than do this, if we are changing the mac of a VF that has a link to the PF in the same VM then simply call sriov_set_vf_mac instead, which is a proven working function that does that. If there is no PF available, or that fails non-fatally, then attempt to change the VF's mac address as we would a PF, without updating the PF's data. Test case: Create a VF: echo 1 > /sys/class/net/<if>/device/sriov_numvfs Set the mac address of the VF directly: ip link set <vf> addr 00:11:22:33:44:55 Set the MAC address of the VF via the PF: ip link set <pf> vf 0 mac 00:11:22:33:44:66 Without this patch the last command will fail with ENOENT. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cooper <jonathan.s.cooper@amd.com> Reported-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com> Fixes: 910c8789 ("set the MAC address using MC_CMD_VADAPTOR_SET_MAC") Acked-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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