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| author | Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> | 2018-12-13 14:54:30 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-12-14 05:41:38 +0300 |
| commit | 3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030 (patch) | |
| tree | 39d632745b9834d8297856b8900b793ec43c45d7 /net/core/rtnetlink.c | |
| parent | 95302c394c3de19bdf24fff5e44a2bf935eadf74 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.tar.xz | |
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 <petrm@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 3b6e551f9e69..f8bdb8adab2c 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2444,7 +2444,7 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb, sa->sa_family = dev->type; memcpy(sa->sa_data, nla_data(tb[IFLA_ADDRESS]), dev->addr_len); - err = dev_set_mac_address(dev, sa); + err = dev_set_mac_address(dev, sa, extack); kfree(sa); if (err) goto errout; |