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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/macvlan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/macvlan.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index 2e4bcd5654c4..e8dc2f44fec9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -384,6 +384,13 @@ 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. + */ + if (lowerdev->rtnl_link_ops == dev->rtnl_link_ops) + return -ENODEV; + if (!tb[IFLA_MTU]) dev->mtu = lowerdev->mtu; else if (dev->mtu > lowerdev->mtu) |
