From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:10:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226841029.3644.2.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
Unlike ifconfig, iproute doesn't report an error when setting
an interface up fails:
(example: put wireless network mac80211 interface into repeater mode
with iwconfig but do not set a peer MAC address, it should fail with
-ENOLINK)
without patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
0
#
with patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
RTNETLINK answers: Link has been severed
2
#
Propagate the return value from dev_change_flags() to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- everything.orig/net/core/rtnetlink.c 2008-10-26 20:00:12.000000000 +0100
+++ everything/net/core/rtnetlink.c 2008-11-11 23:24:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -878,7 +878,9 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device
if (ifm->ifi_change)
flags = (flags & ifm->ifi_change) |
(dev->flags & ~ifm->ifi_change);
- dev_change_flags(dev, flags);
+ err = dev_change_flags(dev, flags);
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto errout;
}
if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
next reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-16 13:10 Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-11-16 13:16 ` rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink() Johannes Berg
2008-11-17 7:21 ` David Miller
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