[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address

Drivers need to validate the initial addresses in their netlink attribute
validation function or manually reject them if they can't support this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index 34c1d0b241ca..abb9900edb3f 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -324,8 +324,10 @@ static int vlan_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
                                           (1<<__LINK_STATE_DORMANT))) |
                       (1<<__LINK_STATE_PRESENT);
 
-        memcpy(dev->broadcast, real_dev->broadcast, real_dev->addr_len);
-        memcpy(dev->dev_addr, real_dev->dev_addr, real_dev->addr_len);
+        if (is_zero_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr))
+                memcpy(dev->dev_addr, real_dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
+        if (is_zero_ether_addr(dev->broadcast))
+                memcpy(dev->broadcast, real_dev->broadcast, dev->addr_len);
 
         if (real_dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX) {
                 dev->hard_header     = real_dev->hard_header;
@@ -373,6 +375,8 @@ void vlan_setup(struct net_device *new_dev)
         new_dev->set_multicast_list = vlan_dev_set_multicast_list;
         new_dev->destructor = free_netdev;
         new_dev->do_ioctl = vlan_dev_ioctl;
+
+        memset(new_dev->broadcast, 0, sizeof(ETH_ALEN));
 }
 
 static void vlan_transfer_operstate(const struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *vlandev)