Commit 5f9021cf authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by David S. Miller

rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()

Unlike ifconfig, iproute doesn't report an error when setting
an interface up fails:

(example: put wireless network mac80211 interface into repeater mode
with iwconfig but do not set a peer MAC address, it should fail with
-ENOLINK)

without patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
0
# 

with patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
RTNETLINK answers: Link has been severed
2
# 

Propagate the return value from dev_change_flags() to fix this.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Tested-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 584c650b
......@@ -878,7 +878,9 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
if (ifm->ifi_change)
flags = (flags & ifm->ifi_change) |
(dev->flags & ~ifm->ifi_change);
dev_change_flags(dev, flags);
err = dev_change_flags(dev, flags);
if (err < 0)
goto errout;
}
if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
......
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