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be2net: Clear any capability flags that driver is not interested in.

It is possible for some versions of firmware to advertise capabilities that driver
is not ready to handle. This may lead to controller stall. Since the driver is
interested only in subset of flags, clearing the rest.

Signed-off-by: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwar.bandi@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sarveshwar Bandi 12 years ago
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3da988c91d

+ 3 - 0
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c

@@ -3048,6 +3048,9 @@ int be_cmd_get_func_config(struct be_adapter *adapter)
 
 		adapter->max_event_queues = le16_to_cpu(desc->eq_count);
 		adapter->if_cap_flags = le32_to_cpu(desc->cap_flags);
+
+		/* Clear flags that driver is not interested in */
+		adapter->if_cap_flags &=  BE_IF_CAP_FLAGS_WANT;
 	}
 err:
 	mutex_unlock(&adapter->mbox_lock);

+ 6 - 0
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h

@@ -563,6 +563,12 @@ enum be_if_flags {
 	BE_IF_FLAGS_MULTICAST = 0x1000
 };
 
+#define BE_IF_CAP_FLAGS_WANT (BE_IF_FLAGS_RSS | BE_IF_FLAGS_PROMISCUOUS |\
+			 BE_IF_FLAGS_BROADCAST | BE_IF_FLAGS_VLAN_PROMISCUOUS |\
+			 BE_IF_FLAGS_VLAN | BE_IF_FLAGS_MCAST_PROMISCUOUS |\
+			 BE_IF_FLAGS_PASS_L3L4_ERRORS | BE_IF_FLAGS_MULTICAST |\
+			 BE_IF_FLAGS_UNTAGGED)
+
 /* An RX interface is an object with one or more MAC addresses and
  * filtering capabilities. */
 struct be_cmd_req_if_create {