Commit 07bddef9 authored by Sabrina Dubroca's avatar Sabrina Dubroca Committed by David S. Miller

macsec: let the administrator set UP state even if lowerdev is down

Currently, the kernel doesn't let the administrator set a macsec device
up unless its lower device is currently up. This is inconsistent, as a
macsec device that is up won't automatically go down when its lower
device goes down.

Now that linkstate propagation works, there's really no reason for this
limitation, so let's remove it.

Fixes: c09440f7 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
Reported-by: default avatarRadu Rendec <radu.rendec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e6ac0758
......@@ -2812,9 +2812,6 @@ static int macsec_dev_open(struct net_device *dev)
struct net_device *real_dev = macsec->real_dev;
int err;
if (!(real_dev->flags & IFF_UP))
return -ENETDOWN;
err = dev_uc_add(real_dev, dev->dev_addr);
if (err < 0)
return err;
......
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