netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: fix initialization with custom link parameters

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:09:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbenc@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: fix initialization with custom link
 parameters

From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:36:30 +0200

> Commit 0c867c9bf84c ("vxlan: move Ethernet initialization to a separate
> function") changed initialization order and as an unintended result, when the
> user specifies additional link parameters (such as IFLA_ADDRESS) while
> creating vxlan interface, those are overwritten by vxlan_ether_setup later.
> 
> It's necessary to call ether_setup from withing the ->setup callback. That
> way, the correct parameters are set by rtnl_create_link later. This is done
> also for VXLAN-GPE, as we don't know the interface type yet at that point,
> and changed to the correct interface type later.
> 
> Fixes: 0c867c9bf84c ("vxlan: move Ethernet initialization to a separate function")
> Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks Jiri.