From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Peter Christensen , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 3.14 116/140] macvlan: Dont propagate IFF_ALLMULTI changes on down interfaces. Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:34:15 -0700 Message-Id: <20140529043104.499331306@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140529043049.661315084@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140529043049.661315084@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Christensen [ Upstream commit bbeb0eadcf9fe74fb2b9b1a6fea82cd538b1e556 ] Clearing the IFF_ALLMULTI flag on a down interface could cause an allmulti overflow on the underlying interface. Attempting the set IFF_ALLMULTI on the underlying interface would cause an error and the log message: "allmulti touches root, set allmulti failed." Signed-off-by: Peter Christensen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -458,8 +458,10 @@ static void macvlan_change_rx_flags(stru struct macvlan_dev *vlan = netdev_priv(dev); struct net_device *lowerdev = vlan->lowerdev; - if (change & IFF_ALLMULTI) - dev_set_allmulti(lowerdev, dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI ? 1 : -1); + if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) { + if (change & IFF_ALLMULTI) + dev_set_allmulti(lowerdev, dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI ? 1 : -1); + } } static void macvlan_set_mac_lists(struct net_device *dev)