[PATCH 06/10] batman-adv: warn if added interface is part of a bridge
From: Marek Lindner <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-17 07:19:26
Also in:
batman
Subsystem:
batman advanced, the rest · Maintainers:
Marek Lindner, Simon Wunderlich, Antonio Quartulli, Sven Eckelmann, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <redacted> --- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index d3e0e32..68b667c 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c@@ -281,6 +281,14 @@ int hardif_enable_interface(struct hard_iface *hard_iface, if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&hard_iface->refcount)) goto out; + /* hard-interface is part of a bridge */ + if (hard_iface->net_dev->priv_flags & IFF_BRIDGE_PORT) + pr_err("You are about to enable batman-adv on '%s' which " + "already is part of a bridge. Unless you know exactly " + "what you are doing this is probably wrong and won't " + "work the way you think it would.\n", + hard_iface->net_dev->name); + soft_iface = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, iface_name); if (!soft_iface) {
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