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| -rw-r--r-- | net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c index d3e0e32e51c..68b667c1d85 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -281,6 +281,14 @@ int hardif_enable_interface(struct hard_iface *hard_iface, if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&hard_iface->refcount)) goto out; + /* hard-interface is part of a bridge */ + if (hard_iface->net_dev->priv_flags & IFF_BRIDGE_PORT) + pr_err("You are about to enable batman-adv on '%s' which " + "already is part of a bridge. Unless you know exactly " + "what you are doing this is probably wrong and won't " + "work the way you think it would.\n", + hard_iface->net_dev->name); + soft_iface = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, iface_name); if (!soft_iface) { |