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authorstephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2014-06-06 19:10:00 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-06-11 09:46:42 +0400
commitf8c1b7ce00254a5bb75d5b5e5ef1601326a0e08e (patch)
treeaa28a0d1e82a3d48a48079365ff168846774c576 /net
parent6cc55e096f1f2a8585cf8dc9049862f2376f66d4 (diff)
downloadlinux-f8c1b7ce00254a5bb75d5b5e5ef1601326a0e08e.tar.xz
gre: allow changing mac address when device is up
There is no need to require forcing device down on a Ethernet GRE (gretap) tunnel to change the MAC address. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ip_gre.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index c5a557a06a31..9b842544aea3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ static void ipgre_tap_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{
ether_setup(dev);
dev->netdev_ops = &gre_tap_netdev_ops;
+ dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
ip_tunnel_setup(dev, gre_tap_net_id);
}