From bb35f67195fcdbe79faa7a15ce148a67c9ab923d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:10:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net: introduce new priv_flag indicating iface capable of
change mac when running
Introduce IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE priv_flag and use it to disable
netif_running() check in eth_mac_addr()
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
include/linux/if.h | 2 ++
net/ethernet/eth.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/if.h b/include/linux/if.h
index f995c663c493b..1ec407b01e46f 100644
--- a/include/linux/if.h
+++ b/include/linux/if.h
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@
#define IFF_UNICAST_FLT 0x20000 /* Supports unicast filtering */
#define IFF_TEAM_PORT 0x40000 /* device used as team port */
#define IFF_SUPP_NOFCS 0x80000 /* device supports sending custom FCS */
+#define IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE 0x100000 /* device supports hardware address
+ * change when it's running */
#define IF_GET_IFACE 0x0001 /* for querying only */
diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
index 36e58800a9e34..db6a6c17d7906 100644
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ int eth_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
{
struct sockaddr *addr = p;
- if (netif_running(dev))
+ if (!(dev->priv_flags & IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE) && netif_running(dev))
return -EBUSY;
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
--
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