netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 39252] New: [r8169] PPPoE connections don't work if a custom MAC address is assigned

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	t.artem@...lcity.com, mostrows@...thlink.net
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 39252] New: [r8169] PPPoE connections don't
 work if a custom MAC address is assigned

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:13:45 -0700

>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39252
>> 
>>            Summary: [r8169] PPPoE connections don't work if a custom MAC
>>                     address is assigned
 ...
>> Description of problem: if I assign a custom MAC address to my onboard NIC,
>> then I cannot establish PPPoE connections, and even `pppoe -A` command doesn't
>> return any PPPoE access concentrators.

Since you seem to be creating your PPPoE connections _after_ changing
the MAC, the following shouldn't matter, but for the cases where
PPPoE connections already exist we do need this kind of change.

Again, I don't expect this to fix the bug, and I believe that it's
some r8169 specific issue.  Although, it might.

--------------------
pppoe: Must flush connections when MAC address changes too.

Kernel bugzilla: 39252

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/pppoe.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/pppoe.c
index 718879b..bc9a4bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pppoe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pppoe.c
@@ -348,8 +348,9 @@ static int pppoe_device_event(struct notifier_block *this,
 
 	/* Only look at sockets that are using this specific device. */
 	switch (event) {
+	case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
 	case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
-		/* A change in mtu is a bad thing, requiring
+		/* A change in mtu or address is a bad thing, requiring
 		 * LCP re-negotiation.
 		 */
 
-- 
1.7.6

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