From 87ab7f6f2874f1115817e394a7ed2dea1c72549e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:21:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary
 promisc mode.

Macvlan already supports hw address filters.  Set the IFF_UNICAST_FLT
so that it doesn't needlesly enter PROMISC mode when macvlans are
stacked.

Signed-of-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 417b2af1aa80..73abbc1655d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -660,6 +660,7 @@ void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	ether_setup(dev);
 
 	dev->priv_flags	       &= ~(IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING);
+	dev->priv_flags	       |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
 	dev->netdev_ops		= &macvlan_netdev_ops;
 	dev->destructor		= free_netdev;
 	dev->header_ops		= &macvlan_hard_header_ops,
-- 
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