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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2013-08-01 13:43:19 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-08-01 16:32:05 -0700
commit266e83474c98e9f18d31f4837cfe05819a660d32 (patch)
treeee1ee950654dcb6eab2f2d3f78f03db4a29e3ae1 /drivers/net
parentc756891a4e1c08c43780e17aca1d2b849ef31d1a (diff)
downloadlinux-266e83474c98e9f18d31f4837cfe05819a660d32.tar.gz
macvlan: better mode validation
macvlan passthrough mode is special: it's not possible to switch to or
from it through a netlink command.

But if you try, the command will succeed, which is
confusing.

Validate input and return error to user.

Cc:  Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macvlan.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 18373b6ae37d..13937f9c04ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -863,6 +863,18 @@ static int macvlan_changelink(struct net_device *dev,
 		struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
 {
 	struct macvlan_dev *vlan = netdev_priv(dev);
+	enum macvlan_mode mode;
+	bool set_mode = false;
+
+	/* Validate mode, but don't set yet: setting flags may fail. */
+	if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]) {
+		set_mode = true;
+		mode = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]);
+		/* Passthrough mode can't be set or cleared dynamically */
+		if ((mode == MACVLAN_MODE_PASSTHRU) !=
+		    (vlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_PASSTHRU))
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_FLAGS]) {
 		__u16 flags = nla_get_u16(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_FLAGS]);
@@ -879,8 +891,8 @@ static int macvlan_changelink(struct net_device *dev,
 		}
 		vlan->flags = flags;
 	}
-	if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE])
-		vlan->mode = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]);
+	if (set_mode)
+		vlan->mode = mode;
 	return 0;
 }