Commit 76e48f9f authored by Shweta Choudaha's avatar Shweta Choudaha Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarShweta Choudaha <schoudah@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 753c104b

net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c

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@@ -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[],

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