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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: set kni mac on ioctl_create
@ 2015-08-28 13:06 Sergey Balabanov
  2015-08-28 13:08 ` Sergey Balabanov
  2016-03-18  2:14 ` Zhang, Helin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Sergey Balabanov @ 2015-08-28 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev

There is a situation when ioctl returns zero mac address (00:00:00:00:00:00)
for just created kni. The situation happens because kni mac is set on
'ipconfig up' event (kni_net_open callback) not on kni creation (kni_ioctl_create).

Signed-off-by: Sergey Balabanov <balabanovsv@ecotelecom.ru>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c | 10 ++++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_net.c  |  9 ---------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
index 2e9fa89..61f83a0 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/etherdevice.h> /* eth_type_trans */
 
 #include <exec-env/rte_kni_common.h>
 #include "kni_dev.h"
@@ -465,6 +466,15 @@ kni_ioctl_create(unsigned int ioctl_num, unsigned long ioctl_param)
 	if (pci)
 		pci_dev_put(pci);
 
+	if (kni->lad_dev)
+		memcpy(net_dev->dev_addr, kni->lad_dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+	else
+		/*
+		 * Generate random mac address. eth_random_addr() is the newer
+		 * version of generating mac address in linux kernel.
+		 */
+		random_ether_addr(net_dev->dev_addr);
+
 	ret = register_netdev(net_dev);
 	if (ret) {
 		KNI_ERR("error %i registering device \"%s\"\n",
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_net.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_net.c
index ab5add4..b50b4cf 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_net.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_net.c
@@ -70,15 +70,6 @@ kni_net_open(struct net_device *dev)
 	struct rte_kni_request req;
 	struct kni_dev *kni = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-	if (kni->lad_dev)
-		memcpy(dev->dev_addr, kni->lad_dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
-	else
-		/*
-		 * Generate random mac address. eth_random_addr() is the newer
-		 * version of generating mac address in linux kernel.
-		 */
-		random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
-
 	netif_start_queue(dev);
 
 	memset(&req, 0, sizeof(req));
-- 
2.1.4

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2015-08-28 13:06 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: set kni mac on ioctl_create Sergey Balabanov
2015-08-28 13:08 ` Sergey Balabanov
2016-03-17 15:06   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-18  2:14 ` Zhang, Helin
2016-04-21 15:16   ` Igor Ryzhov
2016-04-22  1:57     ` Zhang, Helin
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