Commit 3ba0bf47 authored by Jesse Brandeburg's avatar Jesse Brandeburg Committed by Paolo Abeni

net/core: refactor promiscuous mode message

The kernel stack can be more consistent by printing the IFF_PROMISC
aka promiscuous enable/disable messages with the standard netdev_info
message which can include bus and driver info as well as the device.

typical command usage from user space looks like:
ip link set eth0 promisc <on|off>

But lots of utilities such as bridge, tcpdump, etc put the interface into
promiscuous mode.

old message:
[  406.034418] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[  408.424703] device eth0 left promiscuous mode

new message:
[  406.034431] ice 0000:17:00.0 eth0: entered promiscuous mode
[  408.424715] ice 0000:17:00.0 eth0: left promiscuous mode
Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
parent 802dcbd6
......@@ -8321,9 +8321,8 @@ static int __dev_set_promiscuity(struct net_device *dev, int inc, bool notify)
}
}
if (dev->flags != old_flags) {
pr_info("device %s %s promiscuous mode\n",
dev->name,
dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC ? "entered" : "left");
netdev_info(dev, "%s promiscuous mode\n",
dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC ? "entered" : "left");
if (audit_enabled) {
current_uid_gid(&uid, &gid);
audit_log(audit_context(), GFP_ATOMIC,
......
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