Re: [PATCH] ipvlan: flush arp table when mac address changed

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 19:00 +0800, liuqifa@huawei.com wrote:
> From: Keefe Liu <liuqifa@huawei.com>
> 
> When master device's mac has been changed, the
> commit <32c10bbfe914> "ipvlan: always use the current L2
> addr of the master" makes the IPVlan devices's mac changed
> also, but it doesn't flush the IPVlan's arp table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keefe Liu <liuqifa@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
> index 450eec2..a1edfe1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
>   *
>   */
>  
> +#include <net/neighbour.h>
> +#include <net/arp.h>
>  #include "ipvlan.h"
>  
>  static unsigned int ipvlan_netid __read_mostly;
> @@ -792,8 +794,10 @@ static int ipvlan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
>  		break;
>  
>  	case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
> -		list_for_each_entry(ipvlan, &port->ipvlans, pnode)
> +		list_for_each_entry(ipvlan, &port->ipvlans, pnode) {
>  			ether_addr_copy(ipvlan->dev->dev_addr, dev->dev_addr);
> +			neigh_changeaddr(&arp_tbl, ipvlan->dev);
> +		}

Why don't using:

 call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, ipvlan->dev);

instead?

that is what other stacked device - bridge and vlans - are currently
doing in the same scenario.

Thanks,

Paolo