[PATCH v2 1/2] net/i40e: fix MAC address removal

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Mon Sep 7 13:17:23 CEST 2026


MAC addresses removal was tied with VMDq pools even when not used.
So if VMDq is not enabled, no address would be ever removed.

Fixes: 9de506a6c781 ("ethdev: skip VMDq pools unless configured")

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
I could not test the change as my setups are KO atm.

Probably worth squashing in 9de506a6c781 before pulling to main

Changes since v1:
- fixed compilation,

---
 drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index b6b2d291ee..3c01354c39 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -4509,11 +4509,16 @@ i40e_macaddr_remove(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint32_t index)
 	struct rte_ether_addr *macaddr;
 	int ret;
 	uint32_t i;
+	bool vmdq;
 	uint64_t pool_sel;
 
 	macaddr = &(data->mac_addrs[index]);
 
-	pool_sel = dev->data->mac_pool_sel[index];
+	vmdq = (dev->data->dev_conf.rxmode.mq_mode & RTE_ETH_MQ_RX_VMDQ_FLAG) != 0;
+	if (!vmdq)
+		pool_sel = 1;
+	else
+		pool_sel = dev->data->mac_pool_sel[index];
 
 	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(pool_sel) * CHAR_BIT; i++) {
 		if (pool_sel & RTE_BIT64(i)) {
-- 
2.54.0



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