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authorJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>2010-03-10 10:30:19 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-03-18 20:00:02 -0700
commit1c01fe14a87332cc88266fbd6e598319322eb96f (patch)
treee80491a8120724db96f7f6c6d2e2334d33383e6c /drivers
parent3ca5b4042ecae5e73c59de62e4ac0db31c10e0f8 (diff)
net: forbid underlaying devices to change its type
It's not desired for underlaying devices to change type. At the time, there is for example possible to have bond with changed type from Ethernet to Infiniband as a port of a bridge. This patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macvlan.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 40faa368b07a..445e73c343ba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -748,6 +748,9 @@ static int macvlan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
list_for_each_entry_safe(vlan, next, &port->vlans, list)
vlan->dev->rtnl_link_ops->dellink(vlan->dev, NULL);
break;
+ case NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE:
+ /* Forbid underlaying device to change its type. */
+ return NOTIFY_BAD;
}
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}