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| author | Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> | 2018-06-04 19:26:07 -0600 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-06-05 10:16:25 -0400 |
| commit | 9deb441c113ae9e761e42f78d90736d762ff49a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 17ba4e3b0050f94a55f7ed91486261a2ce4e1ddc /drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm | |
| parent | f4c9f85f3b2cb7669830cd04d0be61192a4d2436 (diff) | |
net: ipv6: Generate random IID for addresses on RAWIP devices
RAWIP devices such as rmnet do not have a hardware address and
instead require the kernel to generate a random IID for the
IPv6 addresses.
Signed-off-by: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_vnd.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_vnd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_vnd.c index cb02e1a015c1..b9a7548ec6a0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_vnd.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_vnd.c @@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ void rmnet_vnd_setup(struct net_device *rmnet_dev) rmnet_dev->needs_free_netdev = true; rmnet_dev->ethtool_ops = &rmnet_ethtool_ops; + + /* This perm addr will be used as interface identifier by IPv6 */ + rmnet_dev->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_RANDOM; + eth_random_addr(rmnet_dev->perm_addr); } /* Exposed API */ |