[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "dm9601: fix IFF_ALLMULTI handling" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Oct 28 21:59:32 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm9601: fix IFF_ALLMULTI handling

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 9212934ea3e571288aa1a647db362505f412d7ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:28:20 +0200
Subject: dm9601: fix IFF_ALLMULTI handling

[ Upstream commit bf0ea6380724beb64f27a722dfc4b0edabff816e ]

Pass-all-multicast is controlled by bit 3 in RX control, not bit 2
(pass undersized frames).

Reported-by: Joseph Chang <joseph_chang at davicom.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
index d7e9944..c929122 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static void dm9601_set_multicast(struct net_device *net)
 		rx_ctl |= 0x02;
 	} else if (net->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI ||
 		   netdev_mc_count(net) > DM_MAX_MCAST) {
-		rx_ctl |= 0x04;
+		rx_ctl |= 0x08;
 	} else if (!netdev_mc_empty(net)) {
 		struct netdev_hw_addr *ha;

--
1.8.1.2





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