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| author | Shweta Choudaha <schoudah@brocade.com> | 2016-06-08 20:15:43 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-06-08 22:35:44 -0700 |
| commit | 76e48f9fbe3b0d1279868eef0543725577525e97 (patch) | |
| tree | be3eaf791f0231cfea4441c7614d2e9fc5ed9373 /net/ipv6 | |
| parent | 753c104becaf0893fe5760fb411a44006f6b558e (diff) | |
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ip6gre: Allow live link address change
The ip6 GRE tap device should not be forced to down state to change
the mac address and should allow live address change for tap device
similar to ipv4 gre.
Signed-off-by: Shweta Choudaha <schoudah@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c index f4ac2842d4d9..fdc9de276ab1 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c @@ -1256,6 +1256,8 @@ static int ip6gre_tap_init(struct net_device *dev) if (ret) return ret; + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE; + tunnel = netdev_priv(dev); ip6gre_tnl_link_config(tunnel, 1); @@ -1289,6 +1291,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tap_setup(struct net_device *dev) dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING; + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE; } static bool ip6gre_netlink_encap_parms(struct nlattr *data[], |