Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754438AbaKKLt3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:49:29 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:57475 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753882AbaKKLKM (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:10:12 -0500 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Ian Morgan , "David S. Miller" , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 075/170] ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:07:14 +0000 Message-Id: <1415704129-12709-76-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: <1415704129-12709-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1415704129-12709-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.16 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.7-ckt1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ian Morgan commit 95ff88688781db2f64042e69bd499e518bbb36e5 upstream. The following patch fixes a bug which causes the ax88179_178a driver to be incapable of being added to a bond. When I brought up the issue with the bonding maintainers, they indicated that the real problem was with the NIC driver which must return zero for success (of setting the MAC address). I see that several other NIC drivers follow that pattern by either simply always returing zero, or by passing through a negative (error) result while rewriting any positive return code to zero. With that same philisophy applied to the ax88179_178a driver, it allows it to work correctly with the bonding driver. I believe this is suitable for queuing in -stable, as it's a small, simple, and obvious fix that corrects a defect with no other known workaround. This patch is against vanilla 3.17(.0). Signed-off-by: Ian Morgan drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c index 054e59ca6946..8cee173eefb2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c @@ -696,6 +696,7 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *net, void *p) { struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(net); struct sockaddr *addr = p; + int ret; if (netif_running(net)) return -EBUSY; @@ -705,8 +706,12 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *net, void *p) memcpy(net->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); /* Set the MAC address */ - return ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, + ret = ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, ETH_ALEN, net->dev_addr); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + + return 0; } static const struct net_device_ops ax88179_netdev_ops = { -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/