-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: David Miller [RTNETLINK]: Fix IFLA_ADDRESS handling. The ->set_mac_address handlers expect a pointer to a sockaddr which contains the MAC address, whereas IFLA_ADDRESS provides just the MAC address itself. So whip up a sockaddr to wrap around the netlink attribute for the ->set_mac_address call. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.17.8.orig/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ linux-2.6.17.8/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -395,6 +395,9 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *sk } if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]) { + struct sockaddr *sa; + int len; + if (!dev->set_mac_address) { err = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto out; @@ -406,7 +409,17 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *sk if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]->rta_len != RTA_LENGTH(dev->addr_len)) goto out; - err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1])); + len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + dev->addr_len; + sa = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!sa) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + sa->sa_family = dev->type; + memcpy(sa->sa_data, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]), + dev->addr_len); + err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, sa); + kfree(sa); if (err) goto out; send_addr_notify = 1; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/