veth: allow changing the mac address while interface is up

Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index e522ff70444c..24f6b27e169f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ static void veth_setup(struct net_device *dev)
         ether_setup(dev);
 
         dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;
+        dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
 
         dev->netdev_ops = &veth_netdev_ops;
         dev->ethtool_ops = &veth_ethtool_ops;