i40e: fix mac address checking
Remove custom i40e functions around ethernet addresses that are
duplicating already existing kernel functionality.
Also ends up fixing a bug with multicast addresses.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index d5719bd..e48e1c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -7644,7 +7644,7 @@
}
i40e_get_mac_addr(hw, hw->mac.addr);
- if (i40e_validate_mac_addr(hw->mac.addr)) {
+ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(hw->mac.addr)) {
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "invalid MAC address %pM\n", hw->mac.addr);
err = -EIO;
goto err_mac_addr;