Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] util: fail attempts to use same mac address for guest and tap

This patch is in response to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798467 If a guest's tap device is created using the same MAC address the guest uses for its own network card (which connects to the tap device), the Linux kernel will log the following message and traffic will not pass: kernel: vnet9: received packet with own address as source address This patch disallows MAC addresses with a first byte of 0xFE, but only in the case that the MAC address is used for a guest interface that's connected by way of a standard tap device. (In other words, the validation is done at runtime at the same place the MAC address is modified for the tap device, rather than when mac address is parsed, the idea being that it is then we know for sure the address will be problematic.) --- src/util/virnetdevtap.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)