From e26f43faa0d79dd06e9e94829696b68b9940c2ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlad Yasevich Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:59:16 -0400 Subject: macvlan: Do not return error when setting the same mac address The user currently gets an EBUSY error when attempting to set the mac address on a macvlan device to the same value. This should really be a no-op as nothing changes. Catch the condition and return early. Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index 67bf7ebae5c6..de214fbda173 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -703,6 +703,10 @@ static int macvlan_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p) if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data)) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; + /* If the addresses are the same, this is a no-op */ + if (ether_addr_equal(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data)) + return 0; + if (vlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_PASSTHRU) { dev_set_mac_address(vlan->lowerdev, addr); return 0; -- cgit v1.2.3