Re: [PATCH net] macsec: initialize SecY before registering the netdevice

From: Haseeb Malik

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 15:35:44 EST


Fixed in v2 by moving MAC address inheritance and SCI initialization
before register_netdevice():

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260918-fix-macsec-net-v2-1-784203ec4836@xxxxxxxxx/

Thanks,
Haseeb


On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 9:09 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:12:05 +0000 netdev-bot+sashiko@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > - [Medium] Incomplete fix: the registration-time RTM_NEWLINK notification
> > that this patch makes succeed now carries a bogus IFLA_MACSEC_SCI = 0.
>
> Looks legit