-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
From: David Miller <[email protected]>
[RTNETLINK]: Fix IFLA_ADDRESS handling.
The ->set_mac_address handlers expect a pointer to a
sockaddr which contains the MAC address, whereas
IFLA_ADDRESS provides just the MAC address itself.
So whip up a sockaddr to wrap around the netlink
attribute for the ->set_mac_address call.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.17.8.orig/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ linux-2.6.17.8/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -395,6 +395,9 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *sk
}
if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]) {
+ struct sockaddr *sa;
+ int len;
+
if (!dev->set_mac_address) {
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
goto out;
@@ -406,7 +409,17 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *sk
if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]->rta_len != RTA_LENGTH(dev->addr_len))
goto out;
- err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]));
+ len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + dev->addr_len;
+ sa = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!sa) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ sa->sa_family = dev->type;
+ memcpy(sa->sa_data, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]),
+ dev->addr_len);
+ err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, sa);
+ kfree(sa);
if (err)
goto out;
send_addr_notify = 1;
--
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