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Commit ffe1d49c authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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bridge: allow changing hardware address to any valid address 



For case of bridging pseudo devices, the get created/destroyed (Xen)
need to allow setting address to any valid value.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
parent b86c4503

net/bridge/br_device.c

+7 −12
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -83,27 +83,22 @@ static int br_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu) 
	return 0;

}



/* Allow setting mac address of pseudo-bridge to be same as

 * any of the bound interfaces

 */

/* Allow setting mac address to any valid ethernet address. */

static int br_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)

{

	struct net_bridge *br = netdev_priv(dev);

	struct sockaddr *addr = p;

	struct net_bridge_port *port;

	int err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;



	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))

		return -EINVAL;



	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);

	list_for_each_entry(port, &br->port_list, list) {

		if (!compare_ether_addr(port->dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data)) {

	memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);

	br_stp_change_bridge_id(br, addr->sa_data);

			err = 0;

			break;

		}

	}

	spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);



	return err;

	return 0;

}



static void br_getinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)