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Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev_addr_lists.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8ae6631abcc2..6561021d22d1 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1114,13 +1114,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_bonding_change); void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name) { struct net_device *dev; + int no_module; rcu_read_lock(); dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, name); rcu_read_unlock(); - if (!dev && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - request_module("%s", name); + no_module = !dev; + if (no_module && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + no_module = request_module("netdev-%s", name); + if (no_module && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) { + if (!request_module("%s", name)) + pr_err("Loading kernel module for a network device " +"with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-%s " +"instead\n", name); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_load); diff --git a/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c b/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c index 508f9c18992f..133fd22ea287 100644 --- a/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c +++ b/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ void __hw_addr_del_multiple(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *to_list, list_for_each_entry(ha, &from_list->list, list) { type = addr_type ? addr_type : ha->type; - __hw_addr_del(to_list, ha->addr, addr_len, addr_type); + __hw_addr_del(to_list, ha->addr, addr_len, type); } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__hw_addr_del_multiple); |