+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #481283 +++

Description of problem:
Though  removing vlan ether device,
original ether's status is keeping PROMISC MULTICAST mode.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create new vlan ether.
# vconfig etadd eth2 100
# ifconfig eth2.100
eth2.100  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:87:E2:D4:02
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
# cat /sys/class/net/eth2/flags
0x1003

2.Change new ether's MAC address.
# ifconfig eth2.100 hw ether 22.:22:22:44:44:44
# ifconfig eth2.100
eth2.100  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 22:22:22:44:44:44  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

3.Check eth2's status.
# ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:87:E2:D4:02  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 <<<
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Memory:80100000-80120000
# cat /sys/class/net/eth2.100/flags
0x1002
# cat /sys/calass/net/eth2/flags
0x1103  <<< PROMISC MULTICAST BIT ON

4.Delete vlan ether
# vconfig rem eth2.100
# ifconfig eth2.
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:87:E2:D4:02  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 << STILL PROMISC MULTICAST
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Memory:80100000-80120000
# cat /proc/sys/class/net/bond/eth2/flags
0x1103 <<<
# ifconfig eth2 -rpromisc
# ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:87:E2:D4:02  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1  <<< RELEASE PROMISC MULTICAST
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Memory:80100000-80120000

# cat /sys/class/net/eth2/flags
0x1103         <<< STILL PROMISC MULTICAST

Actual results:
Not release PROMISC MULTICAST

Expected results:
Release PROMISC MULTICAST

Environment:

e1000: eth2: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb>


Additional info:
Our problem have already fixed on current upstream kernel.

--- snip ---
[VLAN]: Fix MAC address handling

The VLAN MAC address handling is broken in multiple ways. When the address
differs when setting it, the real device is put in promiscous mode twice,
but never taken out again. Additionally it doesn't resync when the real
device's address is changed and needlessly puts it in promiscous mode when
the vlan device is still down.

Fix by moving address handling to vlan_dev_open/vlan_dev_stop and properly
deal with address changes in the device notifier. Also switch to
dev_unicast_add (which needs the exact same handling).

Since the set_mac_address handler is identical to the generic ethernet one
with these changes, kill it and use ether_setup().
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8c979c26a0f093c13290320edda799d8335e50ae

--- Additional comment from fleitner on 2009-01-23 07:35:41 EDT ---

 4. State specific action requested of SEG
   I have looked in the git. Below is upstream patch requested by the vendor:
     8c979c26a0f093c13290320edda799d8335e50ae
   Apparently this may need some more patches as:
     (vlan_group_get_device)
     5c15bdec5c38f4ccf73ef2585fc80a6164de9554
     (dev_unicast_delete/dev_unicast_add)
     4417da668c0021903464f92db278ddae348e0299
   
Issue escalated to Support Engineering Group by: tumeya.

--- Additional comment from fleitner on 2009-01-23 07:37:53 EDT ---

Created an attachment (id=329816)
5c15bdec5c38f4ccf73ef2585fc80a6164de9554.patch

--- Additional comment from fleitner on 2009-01-23 07:38:31 EDT ---

Created an attachment (id=329817)
8c979c26a0f093c13290320edda799d8335e50ae.patch

--- Additional comment from fleitner on 2009-01-23 07:38:56 EDT ---

Created an attachment (id=329818)
4417da668c0021903464f92db278ddae348e0299.patch

--- Additional comment from fleitner on 2009-01-23 07:41:36 EDT ---

Created an attachment (id=329819)
patch by customer based on kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.ia64