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| author | Petr Machata <[email protected]> | 2018-12-13 11:54:30 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <[email protected]> | 2018-12-14 02:41:38 +0000 |
| commit | 3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030 (patch) | |
| tree | 39d632745b9834d8297856b8900b793ec43c45d7 /net/core/dev_ioctl.c | |
| parent | Merge tag 'mlx5e-updates-2018-12-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke... (diff) | |
| download | kernel-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.tar.gz kernel-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.zip | |
net: dev: Add extack argument to dev_set_mac_address()
A follow-up patch will add a notifier type NETDEV_PRE_CHANGEADDR, which
allows vetoing of MAC address changes. One prominent path to that
notification is through dev_set_mac_address(). Therefore give this
function an extack argument, so that it can be packed together with the
notification. Thus a textual reason for rejection (or a warning) can be
communicated back to the user.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev_ioctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c index da273ec3cc57..31380fd5a4e2 100644 --- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c +++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd) case SIOCSIFHWADDR: if (dev->addr_len > sizeof(struct sockaddr)) return -EINVAL; - return dev_set_mac_address(dev, &ifr->ifr_hwaddr); + return dev_set_mac_address(dev, &ifr->ifr_hwaddr, NULL); case SIOCSIFHWBROADCAST: if (ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_family != dev->type) |