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[4/4] br_device: unify return value of .ndo_set_mac_address if address is invalid

Message ID 1329826072-14689-5-git-send-email-danny.kukawka@bisect.de
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Danny Kukawka Feb. 21, 2012, 12:07 p.m. UTC
Unify return value of .ndo_set_mac_address if the given address
isn't valid. Return -EADDRNOTAVAIL as eth_mac_addr() already does
if is_valid_ether_addr() fails.

Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
---
 net/bridge/br_device.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

stephen hemminger Feb. 21, 2012, 5:22 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:07:52 +0100
Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de> wrote:

> Unify return value of .ndo_set_mac_address if the given address
> isn't valid. Return -EADDRNOTAVAIL as eth_mac_addr() already does
> if is_valid_ether_addr() fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_device.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_device.c b/net/bridge/br_device.c
> index a157bf8..ba829de 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_device.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_device.c
> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int br_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
>  	struct sockaddr *addr = p;
>  
>  	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
>  
>  	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
>  	if (compare_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data)) {

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
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diff --git a/net/bridge/br_device.c b/net/bridge/br_device.c
index a157bf8..ba829de 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_device.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_device.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@  static int br_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
 	struct sockaddr *addr = p;
 
 	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
 	if (compare_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data)) {