failover relies on the MAC address to pair the primary and the standby devices:
"[...] the hypervisor needs to enable VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature on the virtio-net interface and assign the same MAC address to both virtio-net and VF interfaces." Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst This patch disables the STANDBY feature if the MAC address is not provided by the hypervisor. Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 7723b2a49d8e..7d700f8e545a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -3688,6 +3688,12 @@ static int virtnet_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev) __virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU); } + if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY) && + !virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC)) { + dev_warn(&vdev->dev, "device advertises feature VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY but not VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC, disabling standby"); + __virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY); + } + return 0; } -- 2.39.1 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
