From f74877a5457d34d604dba6dbbb13c4c05bac8b93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Kubecek Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:58:14 +0100 Subject: rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK Permanent hardware address of a network device was traditionally provided via ethtool ioctl interface but as Jiri Pirko pointed out in a review of ethtool netlink interface, rtnetlink is much more suitable for it so let's add it to the RTM_NEWLINK message. Add IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS attribute to RTM_NEWLINK messages unless the permanent address is all zeros (i.e. device driver did not fill it). As permanent address is not modifiable, reject userspace requests containing IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS attribute. Note: we already provide permanent hardware address for bond slaves; unfortunately we cannot drop that attribute for backward compatibility reasons. v5 -> v6: only add the attribute if permanent address is not zero Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h index 8aec8769d944..1d69f637c5d6 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ enum { IFLA_MAX_MTU, IFLA_PROP_LIST, IFLA_ALT_IFNAME, /* Alternative ifname */ + IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS, __IFLA_MAX }; -- cgit v1.2.3