From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: aranea@aixah.de
Cc: kuba@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] veth: Initialize dev->perm_addr
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:28:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200826.082857.584544823490249841.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200826152000.ckxrcfyetdvuvqum@vega>
From: Mira Ressel <aranea@aixah.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:20:00 +0000
> I'm setting the peer->perm_addr, which would otherwise be zero, to its
> dev_addr, which has been either generated randomly by the kernel or
> provided by userland in a netlink attribute.
Which by definition makes it not necessarily a "permanent address" and
therefore is subject to being different across boots, which is exactly
what you don't want to happen for automatic address generation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-26 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-24 14:38 [PATCH 1/2] veth: Initialize dev->perm_addr Mira Ressel
2020-08-24 14:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] vlan: " Mira Ressel
2020-08-24 17:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] veth: " David Miller
2020-08-26 15:20 ` Mira Ressel
2020-08-26 15:28 ` David Miller [this message]
2020-08-26 16:29 ` Mira Ressel
2020-08-26 16:33 ` David Miller
2020-08-27 1:04 ` Mira Ressel
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