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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2008-11-16 23:20:31 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-11-16 23:20:31 -0800
commit5f9021cfdc3524a4c5e3d7ae2d049eb7adcd6776 (patch)
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rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()
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> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 31f29d2989fd..4dfb6b4d4559 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -878,7 +878,9 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
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])