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

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 6/14/22 08:03, Jaroslav Pulchart wrote:
> út 14. 6. 2022 v 16:56 odesílatel Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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@linuxfoundation.org> 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