netdev - Re: TIPC handling of ethernet mac address change

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:56:23 +0800
From:	Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
To:	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com>
CC:	Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>,
	Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TIPC handling of ethernet mac address change

Hi Chris,

You are right.

Currently TIPC does not handle the change of mac address.
So I will submit a related patch to fix the issue to net-next tree.

Thanks for your report.

Regards,
Ying


Chris Friesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new to tipc so pardon me if I use the wrong terminology. :)
>
> I'm using TIPC 1.7.7 and bonding.  I'm seeing some strange behaviour 
> when the bond MAC address changes--the tipc LINK_CONFIG messages still 
> contain the old MAC address embedded in them.  This causes the other 
> end to send back to us on the wrong MAC and the packets get dropped.
>
> I see recv_notification() has a case for NETDEV_CHANGEADDR so it looks 
> like MAC address change was intended to be handled, but I'm not 
> entirely clear on where the MAC address is supposed to be changed.
>
> Any assistance on debugging/patching this would be appreciated.
>
> Chris
>
>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html