ionic: don't remove netdev->dev_addr when syncing uc list
commit 5c976a56 upstream. Bridging, and possibly other upper stack gizmos, adds the lower device's netdev->dev_addr to its own uc list, and then requests it be deleted when the upper bridge device is removed. This delete request also happens with the bridging vlan_filtering is enabled and then disabled. Bonding has a similar behavior with the uc list, but since it also uses set_mac to manage netdev->dev_addr, it doesn't have the same the failure case. Because we store our netdev->dev_addr in our uc list, we need to ignore the delete request from dev_uc_sync so as to not lose the address and all hope of communicating. Note that ndo_set_mac_address is expressly changing netdev->dev_addr, so no limitation is set there. Fixes: 2a654540 ("ionic: Add Rx filter and rx_mode ndo support") Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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