patch 'net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling' has been queued to stable release 22.11.9

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 22.11.9

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 06/14/25. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable/commit/ed3411217b48130b7aa52cf26022a6f00678e72f

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From ed3411217b48130b7aa52cf26022a6f00678e72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:10:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling

[ upstream commit 2d0665a7f7719e8cd615b64ac9f2c8c22d47450a ]

In the mlx5_dev_spawn function, the Virtual Function (VF) synchronizes MAC
addresses from the kernel using netlink. It queries the netdev-configured
MACs and populates the list in the PMD device data, including multicast
MAC addresses. These addresses are later used for control flow creation,
allowing traffic for the listed MACs to be received. However, the Physical
Function (PF) does not synchronize with the kernel and thus does not add
any multicast MAC address rules when enabling traffic. This discrepancy
causes the IFF_ALLMULTI ioctl code to malfunction, as it fails to disable
all multicast traffic, leaving the VF still able to see it.

To align PF and VF behavior, only unicast MAC address flows should be
added.

Fixes: 272733b5ebfd ("net/mlx5: use flow to enable unicast traffic")

Signed-off-by: Gavin Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 3 ++-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
index b59d559c4f..073d81291a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
@@ -1525,7 +1525,8 @@ err_secondary:
 	eth_dev->rx_queue_count = mlx5_rx_queue_count;
 	/* Register MAC address. */
 	claim_zero(mlx5_mac_addr_add(eth_dev, &mac, 0, 0));
-	if (sh->dev_cap.vf && sh->config.vf_nl_en)
+	/* Sync mac addresses for PF or VF/SF if vf_nl_en is true */
+	if ((!sh->dev_cap.vf && !sh->dev_cap.sf) || sh->config.vf_nl_en)
 		mlx5_nl_mac_addr_sync(priv->nl_socket_route,
 				      mlx5_ifindex(eth_dev),
 				      eth_dev->data->mac_addrs,
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c
index b2e860d149..198eeb019c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c
@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ mlx5_traffic_enable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	for (i = 0; i != MLX5_MAX_MAC_ADDRESSES; ++i) {
 		struct rte_ether_addr *mac = &dev->data->mac_addrs[i];
 
-		if (!memcmp(mac, &cmp, sizeof(*mac)))
+		if (!memcmp(mac, &cmp, sizeof(*mac)) || rte_is_multicast_ether_addr(mac))
 			continue;
 		memcpy(&unicast.dst.addr_bytes,
 		       mac->addr_bytes,
-- 
2.47.2

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2025-06-12 22:06:24.795576766 +0100
+++ 0024-net-mlx5-align-PF-and-VF-SF-MAC-address-handling.patch	2025-06-12 22:06:23.838043962 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 2d0665a7f7719e8cd615b64ac9f2c8c22d47450a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From ed3411217b48130b7aa52cf26022a6f00678e72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit 2d0665a7f7719e8cd615b64ac9f2c8c22d47450a ]
+
@@ -20 +21,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -30 +31 @@
-index 573e846ed2..696a3e12c7 100644
+index b59d559c4f..073d81291a 100644
@@ -33 +34 @@
-@@ -1603,7 +1603,8 @@ err_secondary:
+@@ -1525,7 +1525,8 @@ err_secondary:
@@ -44 +45 @@
-index 8145ad4233..485984f9b0 100644
+index b2e860d149..198eeb019c 100644
@@ -47 +48 @@
-@@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@ mlx5_traffic_enable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
+@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ mlx5_traffic_enable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
@@ -54 +55 @@
- 		memcpy(&unicast.hdr.dst_addr.addr_bytes,
+ 		memcpy(&unicast.dst.addr_bytes,