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authorJiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>2014-02-26 17:20:13 (GMT)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-02-27 03:37:12 (GMT)
commit09a89c219baf0f116387efc928e325cf23630f20 (patch)
tree1f519bad2ed29d173f443dbad899b93731118324 /drivers/net/bonding
parentee6154e11eeccd4ae32c4881415dbd902a869592 (diff)
downloadlinux-09a89c219baf0f116387efc928e325cf23630f20.tar.xz
bonding: disallow enslaving a bond to itself
Enslaving a bond to itself leads to an endless loop and hangs the kernel. Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Tested-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index b47fa04..e5628fc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1197,6 +1197,11 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev)
return -EBUSY;
}
+ if (bond_dev == slave_dev) {
+ pr_err("%s: cannot enslave bond to itself.\n", bond_dev->name);
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+
/* vlan challenged mutual exclusion */
/* no need to lock since we're protected by rtnl_lock */
if (slave_dev->features & NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED) {