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Patch "net/mlx5: Mask destination mac value in ethtool steering rules" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net/mlx5: Mask destination mac value in ethtool steering rules

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5-mask-destination-mac-value-in-ethtool-steering-rules.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Thu Jan 12 21:37:26 CET 2017

From: Maor Gottlieb <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:58:35 +0200
Subject: net/mlx5: Mask destination mac value in ethtool steering rules

From: Maor Gottlieb <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 077b1e8069b9b74477b01d28f6b83774dc19a142 ]

We need to mask the destination mac value with the destination mac mask when adding steering rule via ethtool.

Fixes 1174fce8d1410 ('net/mlx5e: Support l3/l4 flow type specs in ethtool flow steering')
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c +1 -0
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ static int set_flow_attrs(u32 *match_c,
 	}
 	if (fs->flow_type & FLOW_MAC_EXT &&
 	    !is_zero_ether_addr(fs->m_ext.h_dest)) {
+		mask_spec(fs->m_ext.h_dest, fs->h_ext.h_dest, ETH_ALEN);
 		ether_addr_copy(MLX5_ADDR_OF(fte_match_set_lyr_2_4,
 					     outer_headers_c, dmac_47_16),
 				fs->m_ext.h_dest);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/net-mlx5-mask-destination-mac-value-in-ethtool-steering-rules.patch