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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/macvlan.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/macvlan.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index 7e24b5048686..b5241fc0f512 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -461,12 +461,13 @@ static int macvlan_newlink(struct net_device *dev, if (lowerdev == NULL) return -ENODEV; - /* Don't allow macvlans on top of other macvlans - its not really - * wrong, but lockdep can't handle it and its not useful for anything - * you couldn't do directly on top of the real device. + /* When creating macvlans on top of other macvlans - use + * the real device as the lowerdev. */ - if (lowerdev->rtnl_link_ops == dev->rtnl_link_ops) - return -ENODEV; + if (lowerdev->rtnl_link_ops == dev->rtnl_link_ops) { + struct macvlan_dev *lowervlan = netdev_priv(lowerdev); + lowerdev = lowervlan->lowerdev; + } if (!tb[IFLA_MTU]) dev->mtu = lowerdev->mtu; |