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authorJiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>2012-07-27 02:58:22 +0000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-08-19 18:15:25 +0100
commit99517853a21edf2327cbe34441de9142720563c8 (patch)
treeba0efbcaa5a486fd6e26c25883cdc8f6538d9883 /net/core/rtnetlink.c
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net: fix rtnetlink IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI handling
[ Upstream commit b1beb681cba5358f62e6187340660ade226a5fcc ] When device flags are set using rtnetlink, IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI flags are handled specially. Function dev_change_flags sets IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI bits in dev->gflags according to the passed value but do_setlink passes a result of rtnl_dev_combine_flags which takes those bits from dev->flags. This can be easily trigerred by doing: tcpdump -i eth0 & ip l s up eth0 ip sets IFF_UP flag in ifi_flags and ifi_change, which is combined with IFF_PROMISC by rtnl_dev_combine_flags, causing __dev_change_flags to set IFF_PROMISC in gflags. Reported-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 05842ab..0cf604b 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -670,6 +670,12 @@ static void set_operstate(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char transition)
}
}
+static unsigned int rtnl_dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ return (dev->flags & ~(IFF_PROMISC | IFF_ALLMULTI)) |
+ (dev->gflags & (IFF_PROMISC | IFF_ALLMULTI));
+}
+
static unsigned int rtnl_dev_combine_flags(const struct net_device *dev,
const struct ifinfomsg *ifm)
{
@@ -678,7 +684,7 @@ static unsigned int rtnl_dev_combine_flags(const struct net_device *dev,
/* bugwards compatibility: ifi_change == 0 is treated as ~0 */
if (ifm->ifi_change)
flags = (flags & ifm->ifi_change) |
- (dev->flags & ~ifm->ifi_change);
+ (rtnl_dev_get_flags(dev) & ~ifm->ifi_change);
return flags;
}