This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vlan: Propagate MAC address to VLANs to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: vlan-propagate-mac-address-to-vlans.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 308453aa9156a3b8ee382c0949befb507a32b0c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Manning <mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 17:45:07 +0100 Subject: vlan: Propagate MAC address to VLANs From: Mike Manning <mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 308453aa9156a3b8ee382c0949befb507a32b0c1 upstream. The MAC address of the physical interface is only copied to the VLAN when it is first created, resulting in an inconsistency after MAC address changes of only newly created VLANs having an up-to-date MAC. The VLANs should continue inheriting the MAC address of the physical interface until the VLAN MAC address is explicitly set to any value. This allows IPv6 EUI64 addresses for the VLAN to reflect any changes to the MAC of the physical interface and thus for DAD to behave as expected. Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/8021q/vlan.c | 5 +++++ net/8021q/vlan.h | 2 ++ net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/8021q/vlan.c +++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c @@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ static void vlan_sync_address(struct net if (ether_addr_equal(vlan->real_dev_addr, dev->dev_addr)) return; + /* vlan continues to inherit address of lower device */ + if (vlan_dev_inherit_address(vlandev, dev)) + goto out; + /* vlan address was different from the old address and is equal to * the new address */ if (!ether_addr_equal(vlandev->dev_addr, vlan->real_dev_addr) && @@ -304,6 +308,7 @@ static void vlan_sync_address(struct net !ether_addr_equal(vlandev->dev_addr, dev->dev_addr)) dev_uc_add(dev, vlandev->dev_addr); +out: ether_addr_copy(vlan->real_dev_addr, dev->dev_addr); } --- a/net/8021q/vlan.h +++ b/net/8021q/vlan.h @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ int vlan_check_real_dev(struct net_devic void vlan_setup(struct net_device *dev); int register_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev); void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head); +bool vlan_dev_inherit_address(struct net_device *dev, + struct net_device *real_dev); static inline u32 vlan_get_ingress_priority(struct net_device *dev, u16 vlan_tci) --- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c +++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c @@ -276,6 +276,17 @@ void vlan_dev_get_realdev_name(const str strncpy(result, vlan_dev_priv(dev)->real_dev->name, 23); } +bool vlan_dev_inherit_address(struct net_device *dev, + struct net_device *real_dev) +{ + if (dev->addr_assign_type != NET_ADDR_STOLEN) + return false; + + ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, real_dev->dev_addr); + call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev); + return true; +} + static int vlan_dev_open(struct net_device *dev) { struct vlan_dev_priv *vlan = vlan_dev_priv(dev); @@ -286,7 +297,8 @@ static int vlan_dev_open(struct net_devi !(vlan->flags & VLAN_FLAG_LOOSE_BINDING)) return -ENETDOWN; - if (!ether_addr_equal(dev->dev_addr, real_dev->dev_addr)) { + if (!ether_addr_equal(dev->dev_addr, real_dev->dev_addr) && + !vlan_dev_inherit_address(dev, real_dev)) { err = dev_uc_add(real_dev, dev->dev_addr); if (err < 0) goto out; @@ -591,8 +603,10 @@ static int vlan_dev_init(struct net_devi /* ipv6 shared card related stuff */ dev->dev_id = real_dev->dev_id; - if (is_zero_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) - eth_hw_addr_inherit(dev, real_dev); + if (is_zero_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) { + ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, real_dev->dev_addr); + dev->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_STOLEN; + } if (is_zero_ether_addr(dev->broadcast)) memcpy(dev->broadcast, real_dev->broadcast, dev->addr_len); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/vlan-propagate-mac-address-to-vlans.patch