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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-08-08 16:47:37 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-08-08 16:47:37 -0700
commit70f8e78e150425b01c1099087ad3decacf7e4ccf (patch)
treea8b670e567d0936b830d2212101e5593b4f1c57c
parent1b2a720506ccf7c30baaeda5d990c29b31e21726 (diff)
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[RTNETLINK]: Fix IFLA_ADDRESS handling.
The ->set_mac_address handlers expect a pointer to a sockaddr which contains the MAC address, whereas IFLA_ADDRESS provides just the MAC address itself. So whip up a sockaddr to wrap around the netlink attribute for the ->set_mac_address call. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 20e5bb73f14..30cc1ba6ed5 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
}
if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]) {
+ struct sockaddr *sa;
+ int len;
+
if (!dev->set_mac_address) {
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
goto out;
@@ -405,7 +408,17 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]->rta_len != RTA_LENGTH(dev->addr_len))
goto out;
- err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]));
+ len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + dev->addr_len;
+ sa = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!sa) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ sa->sa_family = dev->type;
+ memcpy(sa->sa_data, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]),
+ dev->addr_len);
+ err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, sa);
+ kfree(sa);
if (err)
goto out;
send_addr_notify = 1;