net: forbid underlaying devices to change its type

It's not desired for underlaying devices to change type. At the time, there is for example possible to have bond with changed type from Ethernet to Infiniband as a port of a bridge. This patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
kyagi · Mar 19, 2010 · 1c01fe1 · 1c01fe1
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diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -748,6 +748,9 @@ static int macvlan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(vlan, next, &port->vlans, list)
 			vlan->dev->rtnl_link_ops->dellink(vlan->dev, NULL);
 		break;
+	case NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE:
+		/* Forbid underlaying device to change its type. */
+		return NOTIFY_BAD;
 	}
 	return NOTIFY_DONE;
 }

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -530,6 +530,10 @@ static int vlan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event,
 		}
 		unregister_netdevice_many(&list);
 		break;
+
+	case NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE:
+		/* Forbid underlaying device to change its type. */
+		return NOTIFY_BAD;
 	}
 
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diff --git a/net/bridge/br_notify.c b/net/bridge/br_notify.c
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ static int br_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event, v
 	case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
 		br_del_if(br, dev);
 		break;
+
+	case NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE:
+		/* Forbid underlaying device to change its type. */
+		return NOTIFY_BAD;
 	}
 
 	/* Events that may cause spanning tree to refresh */