ixgbe: Extend trust to allow guest to set unicast address

When running certain routing protocols like VRRP, VF guests need the ability to set the unicast address of the interface. Extend the new ndo trust feature to let the hypervisor trust a guest to set/update its own unicast address.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

index eeff3d0..63cff17 100644
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ static int ixgbe_set_vf_mac_addr(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac &&
+	if (adapter->vfinfo[vf].pf_set_mac && !adapter->vfinfo[vf].trusted &&
 	    !ether_addr_equal(adapter->vfinfo[vf].vf_mac_addresses, new_mac)) {
 		e_warn(drv,
 		       "VF %d attempted to override administratively set MAC address\n"

2.5.0

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