Commit d6b00fec authored by Mahesh Bandewar's avatar Mahesh Bandewar Committed by David S. Miller

macvlan: play well with ipvlan device

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

	thost1:~# ip link add link eth0 ipvl0 type ipvlan
	thost1:~# echo $?
	0
	thost1:~# ip link add link eth0 mvl0 type macvlan
	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 5933fea7
......@@ -1057,6 +1057,9 @@ static int macvlan_port_create(struct net_device *dev)
if (dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER || dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)
return -EINVAL;
if (netif_is_ipvlan_port(dev))
return -EBUSY;
port = kzalloc(sizeof(*port), GFP_KERNEL);
if (port == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
......
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