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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-08-12 17:52:51 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-08-12 17:52:52 +1000
commit40c42076ebd362dc69210cccea101ac80b6d4bd4 (patch)
tree01336076f45eb008f00940a5df86b5970b8d92d0 /Documentation
parent10fec20ef5eec1c91913baec1225400f0d02df40 (diff)
downloadlinux-40c42076ebd362dc69210cccea101ac80b6d4bd4.tar.bz2
lguest: don't set MAC address for guest unless specified
This shows up when trying to bridge: tap0: received packet with own address as source address As Max Krasnyansky points out, there's no reason to give the guest the same mac address as the TUN device. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/lguest/lguest.c23
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index b88b0ea54e90..655414821edc 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -1447,21 +1447,6 @@ static void configure_device(int fd, const char *tapif, u32 ipaddr)
err(1, "Bringing interface %s up", tapif);
}
-static void get_mac(int fd, const char *tapif, unsigned char hwaddr[6])
-{
- struct ifreq ifr;
-
- memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
- strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, tapif);
-
- /* SIOC stands for Socket I/O Control. G means Get (vs S for Set
- * above). IF means Interface, and HWADDR is hardware address.
- * Simple! */
- if (ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr) != 0)
- err(1, "getting hw address for %s", tapif);
- memcpy(hwaddr, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, 6);
-}
-
static int get_tun_device(char tapif[IFNAMSIZ])
{
struct ifreq ifr;
@@ -1531,11 +1516,8 @@ static void setup_tun_net(char *arg)
p = strchr(arg, ':');
if (p) {
str2mac(p+1, conf.mac);
+ add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC);
*p = '\0';
- } else {
- p = arg + strlen(arg);
- /* None supplied; query the randomly assigned mac. */
- get_mac(ipfd, tapif, conf.mac);
}
/* arg is now either an IP address or a bridge name */
@@ -1547,13 +1529,10 @@ static void setup_tun_net(char *arg)
/* Set up the tun device. */
configure_device(ipfd, tapif, ip);
- /* Tell Guest what MAC address to use. */
- add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC);
add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY);
/* Expect Guest to handle everything except UFO */
add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM);
add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM);
- add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC);
add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4);
add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO6);
add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ECN);