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authorShweta Choudaha <schoudah@brocade.com>2016-06-08 20:15:43 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-06-08 22:02:17 -0700
commit0a46baaf634663d28038fc137239b71bf5385e5a (patch)
tree15048a2be4f87d08aff9429c0074a720aebf20b0 /net
parenta436d20df948f62a79ee0547d223936e5b2b9d54 (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c3
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[],