From 87cd3dcaf4bd135e44ee187baf788deeb011e58d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pravin B Shelar Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:46:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] geneve: Initialize ethernet address in device setup. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross Acked-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/geneve.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c index 897e1a3f035b..95e9da0a52f2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/geneve.c +++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c @@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ static void geneve_setup(struct net_device *dev) netif_keep_dst(dev); dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE | IFF_NO_QUEUE; + eth_hw_addr_random(dev); } static const struct nla_policy geneve_policy[IFLA_GENEVE_MAX + 1] = { @@ -364,9 +365,6 @@ static int geneve_newlink(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, return -EBUSY; } - if (tb[IFLA_ADDRESS] == NULL) - eth_hw_addr_random(dev); - err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err) return err; -- 2.39.2