netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: fix ip-config error reported by lkp-robot

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Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:58:23 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     u9012063@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_gre: fix ip-config error reported by lkp-robot

From: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Nov 2017 07:57:44 -0800

> lkp-robot reports the following two errors:
>   IP-Config: Failed to open gretap0
>   IP-Config: Failed to open erspan0
> due to device's mac address is zero.  Fix it by assigning
> a random Ethernet address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>

This isn't really a good idea.

If there is a tunnel source address of zero, which is where the device
address comes from, we shouldn't allow the interface to come up
because it is misconfigured.