Commit 764e433b authored by Mahesh Bandewar's avatar Mahesh Bandewar Committed by David S. Miller

ipvlan: play well with macvlan device

If a device is already a macvlan port then refuse to use it as
an ipvlan port in the early stage of port creation.

	thost1:~# ip link add link eth0 mvl0 type macvlan
	thost1:~# echo $?
	0
	thost1:~# ip link add link eth0 ipvl0 type ipvlan
	RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy
	thost1:~# echo $?
	2
	thost1:~#
Signed-off-by: default avatarMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2f33e7d5
......@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ static int ipvlan_port_create(struct net_device *dev)
netdev_err(dev, "Master is either lo or non-ether device\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
if (netif_is_macvlan_port(dev)) {
netdev_err(dev, "Master is a macvlan port.\n");
return -EBUSY;
}
port = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipvl_port), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!port)
return -ENOMEM;
......
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