From 8e1e33ffa696b2d779dd5cd422a80960b88e508c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:39:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] net/tun: Call type change netdev notifiers
Call netdev notifiers before and after changing the device type.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118063919.29485-1-ms@dev.tdt.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 3d45d56172cb8..7c62d82c57db6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -3071,10 +3071,19 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
"Linktype set failed because interface is up\n");
ret = -EBUSY;
} else {
+ ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE,
+ tun->dev);
+ ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
+ if (ret) {
+ netif_info(tun, drv, tun->dev,
+ "Refused to change device type\n");
+ break;
+ }
tun->dev->type = (int) arg;
netif_info(tun, drv, tun->dev, "linktype set to %d\n",
tun->dev->type);
- ret = 0;
+ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_TYPE_CHANGE,
+ tun->dev);
}
break;
--
2.30.2