From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Peter Christensen" , "David S. Miller" Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:26:28 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.2 22/92] macvlan: Don't propagate IFF_ALLMULTI changes on down interfaces. In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2.60-rc1 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: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index ab5786b..b74cdf6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -391,8 +391,10 @@ static void macvlan_change_rx_flags(struct net_device *dev, int change) 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_multicast_list(struct net_device *dev)