Commit 59f997b0 authored Dec 01, 2018 by Matteo Croce Committed by David S. Miller Dec 03, 2018

macvlan: return correct error value



A MAC address must be unique among all the macvlan devices with the same
lower device. The only exception is the passthru [sic] mode,
which shares the lower device address.

When duplicate addresses are detected, EBUSY is returned when bringing
the interface up:

    # ip link add macvlan0 link eth0 type macvlan
    # read addr </sys/class/net/eth0/address
    # ip link set macvlan0 address $addr
    # ip link set macvlan0 up
    RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy

Use correct error code which is EADDRINUSE, and do the check also
earlier, on address change:

    # ip link set macvlan0 address $addr
    RTNETLINK answers: Address already in use

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent fb6df5a6

drivers/net/macvlan.c

+5 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static int macvlan_open(struct net_device *dev)
		goto hash_add;
		}

		err = -EBUSY;
		err = -EADDRINUSE;
		if (macvlan_addr_busy(vlan->port, dev->dev_addr))
		goto out;

		@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int macvlan_sync_address(struct net_device dev, unsigned char addr)
		} else {
		/* Rehash and update the device filters */
		if (macvlan_addr_busy(vlan->port, addr))
		return -EBUSY;
		return -EADDRINUSE;

		if (!macvlan_passthru(port)) {
		err = dev_uc_add(lowerdev, addr);
		@@ -747,6 +747,9 @@ static int macvlan_set_mac_address(struct net_device dev, void p)
		return dev_set_mac_address(vlan->lowerdev, addr);
		}

		if (macvlan_addr_busy(vlan->port, addr->sa_data))
		return -EADDRINUSE;

		return macvlan_sync_address(dev, addr->sa_data);
		}

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