* [PATCH v2 net] rocker: handle non-bridge master change
@ 2015-03-24 0:31 Simon Horman
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From: Simon Horman @ 2015-03-24 0:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jiri Pirko, Scott Feldman, David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev, Simon Horman
Master change notifications may occur other than when joining or
leaving a bridge, for example when being added to or removed from
a bond or Open vSwitch.
Previously in those cases rocker_port_bridge_leave() was called
which results in a null-pointer dereference as rocker_port->bridge_dev
is NULL because there is no bridge device.
This patch makes provision for doing nothing in such cases.
Fixes: 6c7079450071f ("rocker: implement L2 bridge offloading")
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
---
* Lightly tested to the extent that a null-pointer dereference no longer
occurs
v2
* Use rocker_port_is_bridged()
* Added Acks
---
drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
index 9fb6948..5cecec2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
@@ -4468,10 +4468,16 @@ static int rocker_port_master_changed(struct net_device *dev)
struct net_device *master = netdev_master_upper_dev_get(dev);
int err = 0;
+ /* There are currently three cases handled here:
+ * 1. Joining a bridge
+ * 2. Leaving a previously joined bridge
+ * 3. Other, e.g. being added to or removed from a bond or openvswitch,
+ * in which case nothing is done
+ */
if (master && master->rtnl_link_ops &&
!strcmp(master->rtnl_link_ops->kind, "bridge"))
err = rocker_port_bridge_join(rocker_port, master);
- else
+ else if (rocker_port_is_bridged(rocker_port))
err = rocker_port_bridge_leave(rocker_port);
return err;
--
2.1.4
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