[PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 124/293] macvlan: Do not return error when setting the same mac address

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Apr 08 2018 - 22:18:27 EST


From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit e26f43faa0d79dd06e9e94829696b68b9940c2ee ]

The user currently gets an EBUSY error when attempting to set
the mac address on a macvlan device to the same value.

This should really be a no-op as nothing changes. Catch
the condition and return early.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index e8ad4d060da7..3d2cfa5e824a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -705,6 +705,10 @@ static int macvlan_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;

+ /* If the addresses are the same, this is a no-op */
+ if (ether_addr_equal(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data))
+ return 0;
+
if (vlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_PASSTHRU) {
dev_set_mac_address(vlan->lowerdev, addr);
return 0;
--
2.15.1