Re: [PATCH 5.18 000/343] 5.18.4-rc2 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 6/14/22 08:03, Jaroslav Pulchart wrote:
> út 14. 6. 2022 v 16:56 odesílatel Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napsal:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 04:41:31PM +0200, Jaroslav Pulchart wrote:
> > > út 14. 6. 2022 v 8:34 odesílatel Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napsal:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 07:56:36AM +0200, Jaroslav Pulchart wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to report that the ethernet ice driver is not capable of
> > > > > setting promisc mode on at E810-XXV physical interface in the whole
> > > > > 5.18.y kernel line.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reproducer:
> > > > >     $ ip link set promisc on dev em1
> > > > > Dmesg error message:
> > > > >     Error setting promisc mode on VSI 6 (rc=-17)
> > > > >
> > > > > the problem was not observed with 5.17.y
> > > >
> > > > Any chance you can use 'git bisect' to track down the problem commit and
> > > > let the developers of it know?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > >
> > > I tried it, but it makes the system unbootable. I expect the reason is
> > > that it happened somewhere between 5.17->5.18 so I'm using an
> > > "unstable" kernel.
> > >
> > > Is there some way I could bisect just one driver, not a full kernel
> > > between 5.17->5.18?
> >
> > How do you know it is just "one driver"?
>
> Just a quess based on "git grep". The error message was introduced in
> the driver in 5.18-rc*.

The message was introduced with commit 1273f89578f26 ("ice: Fix broken
IFF_ALLMULTI handling"). Given that commit message, it appears to be
at least somewhat likely that reverting this commit will fix your problem.
I would suggest to give it a try.

Guenter